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Noelle St-Clair kicks off ImpactPHL's Investing to End Poverty panel. (Provided)
Business
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Broke in Philly

5 smart lessons about investing to end poverty in Philadelphia

ImpactPHL's recent panel asked experts to share tips for managing cross-sector partnerships, building ethical development projects in low-income areas and more.

8 years ago

The sweetened beverage industry has spent millions to combat soda taxes and support medical groups that avoid blaming sugary drinks for health problems. (Melissa Lomax Speelman/Getty Images)
NPR
Food & Drink
Politics
Taxes

Big soda and the ballot: Soda industry takes cues from tobacco to combat taxes

8 years ago

(Juliana Feliciano Reyes/Philadelphia Media Network)
Aging
Business
Philadelphia
Broke in Philly

Philly wants to teach retiring business owners how to sell — to their workers

Around the country, stakeholders have raised the alarm about the "silver tsunami": the large number of baby boomer business owners approaching retirement.

8 years ago

Wastewater pipeline infrastructure in Pennsylvania is old and in some cities pollutes rivers.  In Philadelphia about half of the wastewater system has brick piping. John Key Junior inspects a sewer in Philadelphia, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Housing
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Broke in Philly

New partnership will protect 475,000 Philly homeowners from sewer snafus

A new partnership will provide 475,000 eligible homeowners an affordable water and sewer line protection plan for about $8 a month.

8 years ago

Technical.ly spent the better part of a week reporting on Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Robert Torres/Technical.ly)
Economic Development
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Social Justice
Broke In Philly

Soft skills, tech jobs: What Philly can learn from Albuquerque’s anti-poverty push

Technical.ly traveled to Albuquerque, N.M., to find what has worked — and what hasn't — in that city's approach to workforce development.

8 years ago

(Square)
PlanPhilly
Business
Law
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Philly Council bill would outlaw cashless businesses

Councilman William Greenlee thinks cashless businesses are classist.

8 years ago

Trader Michael Capolino works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. Strong results from major companies including Microsoft, Visa and Comcast are sending U.S. stocks higher Thursday morning as the market found its footing after three weeks of steep declines. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
National

After long losing streak, U.S. stocks surge on solid earnings

Strong results from major companies including Microsoft, Visa and Comcast are sending U.S. stocks sharply higher Thursday.

8 years ago

In this 2017 photo, an assembly line laborer works alongside a collaborative robot, left, on a chainsaw production line. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
PlanPhilly
Economy
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia safer from job-stealing robots than peer cities, report says

If you work in Philadelphia, your job may be safe from the robots that pundits predict could put one-third of U.S. workers out of a job by 2030.

8 years ago

The Magnolia home was one of the largest offered through the Sears catalog. Sears sold more than 70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70 percent of Sears houses are still standing today. (Sears Holdings Corp.)
NPR
Business

Sears is fading, but memories of its mail-order homes endure

Now that its parent company has filed for bankruptcy, owners of some of those homes are lamenting the end of the Sears era.

8 years ago

In this Aug. 22, 2018 photo, April Box poses for a photo at her home in Spokane, Wash. Box is a healthcare advocate and runs a website to help guide people through major surgeries and other aspects of the healthcare system.  (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)
Health Care
Pennsylvania

2019 ACA rates to decrease for first time in Pennsylvania

What people will end up paying, as in previous years, varies by age and county.

8 years ago

Wineries producing more than 250,000 gallons of wine each year — roughly 100,000 cases — are prohibited from shipping bottles directly to N.J. customers, according to state law.
Vineyards in New Jersey are also subject to the production cap, but right now none exceed it. (AP Photo/Ralph Radford)
Food & Drink
Law
New Jersey

Wineries want to ship directly to N.J. homes — but liquor stores oppose plan

Right now, the most prolific producers of wine are barred from shipping their wine to individual buyers in the Garden State.

8 years ago

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Terry Egger, CEO of Philadelphia Media Network and Jim Friedlich, CEO of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, speak at a memorial service for the late H.F.
Business
History
Media
Philadelphia

‘Optimism, intuition, experience’: Philly remembers Gerry Lenfest

Lenfest's commitment to journalism may have been his greatest achievement, many suggested.

8 years ago

Seth Frotman, former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, poses at NPR headquarters in September. Frotman and his team reviewed thousands of complaints about the questionable practices of student loan companies. (Cameron Pollack/NPR)
NPR
Higher Education
National
Personal Finance

Why Public Service Loan Forgiveness is so unforgiving

This is the story of Seth Frotman, the mangling of the program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and what it says about America's student loan industry.

8 years ago

A sign announcing a store closing hangs above a Sears in Chicago. The bankruptcy filing could mark the end of the struggling retailer, which invented the mail-order catalog busines
NPR
Business

Sears, drowning in red ink, finally files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Sears — the iconic retailer that has sold everything from clothing and toys to refrigerators and socket wrenches over its more than 125-year history — may have reached the end

8 years ago

Macy’s worker Susan Hedman keeps a notebook of all her schedule changes so she can hold Macy’s accountable to Seattle’s secure scheduling law. (Juliana Reyes)
Business
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Broke In Philly

Seattle is the leader in worker protection laws. What can Philly learn as it considers a ‘fair workweek’?

Susan Hedman knows her rights under Seattle's secure scheduling law.

8 years ago

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