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A security guard checks inside of a meeting room after it was evacuated by police with the Department of Homeland Security, where the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was about to vote on net neutrality, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. The room was shortly declared to be safe and the meeting continued where the FCC voted along party lines to repeal net neutrality. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Business

Security guards in Philly region, nation seeing wages grow more than most sectors

Some experts attribute the wage increase to the frequency of mass shootings; others say it's due to the influence of unions.

8 years ago

A dealer counts chips during a game of roulette at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Business
New Jersey

Once near death, Tropicana now No. 2 casino in Atlantic City

After years of reinvesting in and renovating the casino floor, hotel rooms, and eateries, the Tropicana has become the No. 2 casino in the city in terms of gambling revenue.

8 years ago

In this April 7, 2014 file photo, Maria Contreras-Sweet speaks during a ceremonial swearing in as Administrator of the Small Business Administration, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington. A group of investors led by a Contreras-Sweet offered to acquire Weinstein Co., rebrand it and install a female-led board of directors. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo, File)
Business
Gender

Are female-led companies the answer to sexual misconduct?

Promoting more women to boards and the C-Suite is considered a critical step, but critics caution it is not enough, particularly when it comes to turning around a company.

8 years ago

The public housing project the Farragut Houses in Brooklyn, New York. The budget blueprint President Donald Trump released Thursday calls for the cutting of billions of dollars in funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Housing
National
Politics

White House budget calls for deep cuts to HUD

The White House budget is non-binding but carries weight as a statement of the president's spending priorities.

8 years ago

This Tuesday, July 25, 2017 photo shows the rail interlocking and trans-Hudson tunnels at New York's Penn Station. Disabled trains in the tunnels under the Hudson and East rivers regularly cause delays that can ripple up and down the northeastern U.S. and Amtrak says because of safety protocols, even during off-peak times a disabled train causes a minimum delay of 45 minutes to an hour. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Politics
Transportation

Northeast Corridor tunnel backers feel shorted by Trump plan

Proponents of a $13 billion project to build a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey are panning President Donald Trump's infrastructure proposal.

8 years ago

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Joe Acaba performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (NASA via AP)
Politics
Space

Trump wants NASA out of space station by 2025, private businesses in

Under President Donald Trump's 2019 proposed budget released Monday, U.S. government funding for the space station would end by 2025.

8 years ago

Trader John Panin, (right), works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. Stocks struggled to stabilize Friday as investors sent prices climbing, then slumping in unsteady trading a day after the market entered its first correction in two years. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
Economy
National

Stock drop could pose risk to US economy — if it endures

Consumers are the engine of U.S. economic growth, so any sharp pullback in their spending would hurt. Could the result be a weaker economy and lost jobs?

8 years ago

Trader Michael Milano (right) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, a day when all the major U.S. stock indexes saw sharp drops.
NPR

Another rout in the stock market, as Dow drops more than 1,000 points

U.S. stock markets fell sharply Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average tumbling 1,033 points, or 4 percent, to 23,860.

8 years ago

Trader Frederick Reimer works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. The Dow Jones industrial average fell as much as 500 points in early trading, bringing the index down 10 percent from the record high it reached on Jan. 26. The DJIA quickly recovered much of that loss. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Business
Politics

Dow Jones in flux

On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average suffered its biggest one day point drop and Tuesday the markets continued to fluctuate. We’ ...

8 years ago

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On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, trader Tommy Kalikas looks on as stock indexes continued to fall Monday.
NPR

Dow plunges 1,175, the biggest point drop in history

At one point Monday afternoon, the Dow was down 1,579 points — the largest intraday point drop in the history of the index.

8 years ago

According to a recent NPR/Marist poll, 30 percent of Americans do something else for pay in addition to their full-time jobs. (Ilana Kohn/Ikon Images/Getty Images)
NPR

When a full-time job isn’t enough to make it

A new poll finds that 1 in 5 jobs in America is held by a worker under contract. Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the American workforce.

8 years ago

Job applicants interact with screening staff during a hiring event for the soon-to-open Hard Rock casino on Tuesday Jan. 30, 2018 in Atlantic City N.J. Hard Rock, which used to be the Trump Taj Mahal, held the recruiting event for former Taj workers. The former Revel casino is reopening around the same time as well as the Ocean Resort casino, adding thousands of jobs to a market that lost 11,000 since 2014 due to casino closings. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Business
New Jersey

Thousands of lost Atlantic City casino jobs are coming back

On Tuesday, the shuttered former Trump Taj Mahal casino began interviewing job applicants for its reincarnation this summer as a Hard Rock casino resort.

8 years ago

A former restaurant will be the site of a medical marijuana clinic in the State College area, Centre County. (Anne Danahy / WPSU)
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Economic Development
Pennsylvania

Medical marijuana could be good business in Pa.

Bradford is a historic town on the northern Pennsylvania border. An empty storefront will soon be one of the state’s medical marijuana clinics.

8 years ago

A commission of Pennsylvania lawmakers and state officials is working in Harrisburg to come up with a plan to pay down the state's pension debt. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Politics
Taxes

IFO: federal tax breaks might mean good news for Pa.’s bottom line

After a year marked by lower-than expected income and intractable budget problems, Pennsylvania's finances appear to be on an upswing.

8 years ago

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett (left) in 2017; Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, in 2013; and JP Morgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon in 2013. Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase are teaming up to create a health care company announced Tuesday that is
NPR
Business
Health Care

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase launch new health care company

The new company will be "free from profit-making incentives and constraints" as it tries to find ways to cut costs and boost satisfaction.

8 years ago

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