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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Business

Two Democrats in Congress have introduced bills that would bar brick-and-mortar businesses nationwide from rejecting cash. (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)
Money

U.S. may follow Philly and New Jersey to ban cashless businesses

Two Democrats in Congress have introduced bills that would bar brick-and-mortar businesses nationwide from rejecting cash.

7 years ago

Zakary Pashak started Detroit Bikes when he moved to Detroit in 2011, at a time when the city was reeling. (Courtesy of Melany Hallgren)
NPR
Money

For one U.S. bike-maker, tariffs are a mixed bag

Zakary Pashak is a rare breed. His company, Detroit Bikes, is one of the very few American bicycle makers. Most bikes come from China.

7 years ago

The U.S. is lifting tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel imports, nearly a year after imposing the duties. Here, a worker is seen at Bri-Steel Manufacturing, which makes seamless steel pipes, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Candace Elliott/Reuters)
NPR
Money

U.S. will lift tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico

The tariffs will be lifted within two days, according to a joint U.S.-Canada statement posted by Canada's foreign ministry.

7 years ago

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio speaks in Camden Thursday about the controversial tax break some businesses have gotten to relocate to the city. (Miguel Martinez/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Camden boosters hold invite-only defense of tax breaks in county building

Camden is in the middle of a feud between Gov. Phil Murphy and South Jersey Democrats over how the state gives out lucrative tax breaks.

7 years ago

Martin Tower, the former headquarters of Bethlehem Steel, is shown days before a planned implosion. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Implosion of former Bethlehem Steel HQ highlights changing face of the Lehigh Valley

Bethlehem Steel built a skyscraper in the 1970s, just ahead of the industry's collapse. The tower sat mostly vacant for a decade, but the city found other ways to revitalize.

7 years ago

Listen 4:38
Job seeking Philadelphians spoke with employers from around the region Thursday morning at the 13th annual Neighborhood Job Fair at Temple University. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Community

Unemployment is down in Philly. Is job hunting here any easier?

Hundreds headed to the 13th Annual Neighborhood Job Fair in North Philadelphia, billed as the city’s largest community job fair, looking for work.

7 years ago

Daniel Melhorn drives his combine through a field of soybeans in Danville, Pa., Wednesday afternoon Nov. 12, 2008 as three whitetail deer move from one section of corn to another behind the harvester. (Jimmy May/Associated Press/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Gov. Wolf derides ‘lack of strategy’ in Trump’s trade approach

Governor Tom Wolf is raising the alarm over the impact Chinese tariffs are having on Pennsylvania’s farmers.

7 years ago

(Facebook/Imperfect Produce)
Lifestyle
Billy Penn

Ugly fruits and veggies delivered to your door — stoop thieves be damned

Watch out, Philly. More ugly fruits and veggies are coming to town.

7 years ago

The Pottstown Mercury and the Times Herald of Norristown, both owned by Alden Global Capital, often publish the same stories by the same reporters. On a recent Monday, Evan Brandt had front page stories in both papers. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

In Philly suburbs, readers see more ‘ghost newspapers’ as hedge funds cut costs

After years of newspaper mergers and layoffs across the Philly region, the ripple effects in Montgomery County explain what you may be seeing in your town.

7 years ago

Listen 5:32
The Schuylkill river at dusk in Philadelphia. The river is a popular fishing spot. In 2018, the New Jersey DEP began testing fish for the family of chemicals known as PFAS and issued fish advisories. New Jersey has stricter limits on PFAS exposure than Pennsylvania. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New Jersey sues companies over PFAS contamination

The lawsuit alleges eight companies engaged in consumer and environmental fraud.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The U.S.-China trade wars

We discuss the escalating trade war between China and the U.S., and the effect it could have on the markets, consumers, farmers and companies.

Air Date: May 15, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:30
Above, an elevated view of start-ups in the Collective Temperance Hospital in London in 2016. (Lionel Derimais/Corbis via Getty Images)
NPR
Money

The decelerator: How do you shutdown a startup?

By one measure, between 30% to 40% of all startups fail. So how do you actually go about closing down shop?

7 years ago

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max airplanes are parked on the tarmac after being grounded at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville on March 28. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
Money
Marketplace

‘Airplane boneyards’ are more than places where planes go to die

Captured in aerial photographs, these storage facilities look stunning, with planes packed in, nose to tail, wingtip to wingtip.

7 years ago

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, (right), and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, (center), greet Chinese Vice Premier Liu He as he arrives at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington, Friday, May 10, 2019 for trade talks between the United States and China. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Money

Trump’s tariffs on China: What are they? How do they work?

The Trump administration asserts, and many independent analysts agree, that Beijing has deployed predatory tactics to try to give China an edge in advanced technologies.

7 years ago

The partners in front of Kitchen's Lane Creamery (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Lifestyle
Billy Penn

Philly’s first oat milk ‘creamery’ is opening on Headhouse Square

Kitchen’s Lane Creamery is a new herbivore/omnivore cafe specializing in oat milk. It will officially take over the Bodhi Coffee spot on Headhouse Square in late May.

7 years ago

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