
Business
Senators chastise drug company executives over high prices
Representatives from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Sanofi, and AbbVie, attended during Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearing.
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Walmart is eliminating greeters. Workers with disabilities feel targeted
NPR has found that Walmart is changing the job requirements for front-door greeters in a way that appears to disproportionately affect workers with disabilities.
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Charter schools exploit lucrative loophole that would be easy to close
In our view, lawmakers should prohibit charter school owners and operators from leasing and purchasing property from their other companies.
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Roche buying Philly’s Spark Therapeutics for $4.8 billion
Spark Therapeutics says being acquired by Roche will help it expand its gene therapy treatments while staying in Philadelphia.
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U.S., China extend trade talks; Xi-Trump meeting may follow
U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed Friday to extend high-level trade talks through the weekend.
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Growing marijuana industry struggles to attract employees of color
Massachusetts wants to give people of color a leg-up in the legal marijuana industry but is off to a very slow start. Next to no black or Latino candidates have applied.
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From corn to Apple: What’s behind the US-China standoff
Individual examples tend to surface only when the complaints wind up in court — often in cases brought by U.S. prosecutors.
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N.J. businesses, investors want jump-start for plug-in vehicles
Electrifying the transportation sector is critical to cutting greenhouse gases, and achieving a clean economy.
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Report shows how more Pennsylvania drivers can go electric
Of the 8 million vehicles registered in Pennsylvania, just 15,000 of them are electric.
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Onetime football player tackles business challenges with help of Philly mentors
The Community College of Philadelphia teamed up with the city to launch an initiative connecting business owners and entrepreneurs.
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Listen 1:14This city told Amazon and Google: No incentives for you
A California mayor refused to offer similar incentives that New York offered to Amazon for a potential headquarters, but landed Google anyway.
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Gone in a New York minute: How the Amazon deal fell apart
Protests, hostile public hearings and disparaging tweets over the next three months, eventually led to Amazon's dramatic Valentine's Day breakup with New York.
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Amazon decision a win for Democrats’ rising left wing
This is not the Democratic Party of yesteryear. Or even last year.
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Greeting cards are still a thing in the digital age. Thanks, millennials
Greeting card companies have weathered some tough times as more people send good wishes online. But millennials are purchasing more cards, which has helped the industry.
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Jury finds two Delaware KFC locations discriminated against breastfeeding supervisor
A KFC near Dover, Delaware forced a supervisor to pump breast milk in an office where employees often barged in on her.
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