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In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 photo, Brendan Shaughnessy, (left), with the Nuclear Issues Study Group, protests with other activists ahead of a meeting of a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel in Albuquerque, N.M. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo)
Money

Holtec defends plans for nuclear waste storage facility

A New Jersey-based company is defending plans to build a multibillion-dollar facility in the New Mexico desert to store spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

6 years ago

Alyssa Collins with Penn State Extension shows a hemp plant that grew after the main experiment was harvested. Under guidelines from the state Department of Agriculture, any plants that spring up outside the parameters of the research period would have to be destroyed. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Money

Pa. plans to open industrial hemp program to commercial growers

Pennsylvania's Agriculture Department is opening up its hemp program, pending approval from the federal government.

6 years ago

The bottles that say Stratos are capsules filled with cannabis for a sleeping or for energy. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. employers search for straight answers on cannabis in the workplace

Medical marijuana raises more questions than answers about drug tests and employee rights, while full-blown legalization seems like an invitation to lawsuits and court cases.

6 years ago

A customer browses the shelves at Shakespeare & Co. in Center City. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Independent bookstores are coming back in Philly, across the U.S.

Chain retailers are struggling, but there are many reasons why independent bookstores are thriving in Philly and other places across the U.S.

6 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Comcast, Aramark and Campbell’s rank among Fortune 500s for boardroom diversity

In a multiyear study Comcast Corp., Aramark and Campbell Soup Company all ranked in the top 35 among the Fortune 500 firms for boardroom diversity.

6 years ago

Workers prepare steel for shipment at Camden Yards Steel Company. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Camden officials bristle at Murphy’s critique of N.J. tax incentives

After governor slams lax oversight of the tax break program, saying the money could have been better spent elsewhere, Camden officials point to how it's improved the city.

6 years ago

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Finance Director Rob Dubow maintained the property tax assessment issue is not as big as City Council or the controller have said it is. (WHYY file)
Politics & Policy

Philly controller questions tax assessments; finance director points to improvement

In a new report, Philadelphia's controller criticizes method for calculating property tax assessments. But the finance chief defends the system and notes improvements.

6 years ago

In this Tuesday, May 20, 2008, file photo, John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, talks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. Bogle has died at 89. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Money

John Bogle, Vanguard founder, dies at 89

Bogle did not invent the index fund, but he expanded access to no-frills, low-cost investing in 1976 when Vanguard introduced the first index fund for individual investors.

6 years ago

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard says a growing body of research suggests that diversity leads to better decision-making. (Cliff Owen/AP)
NPR
Money

The push to break up the boys’ club at the Fed

At a time when more women than men are graduating from college and earning doctorates, just a third of Ph.D.s in economics go to women.

6 years ago

An unswept street in the Germantown Special Services District on Nov. 2, 2018. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Germantown businesses revolt against taxing district that didn’t deliver on clean streets promise

After a bad year, the Germantown Special Services District was in the red and unable to do its one main job: keep the streets clean.

6 years ago

Former Camden Mayor Dana Redd, left, listens during a meeting of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority Thursday, July 10, 2014, in Trenton, N.J., where a vote was taken on a $260 million tax break was approved for Holtec International. (Mel Evans/AP)
Money

N.J. tax-break programs poorly monitored, audit finds

As of February 2018, the EDA had approved nearly $11 billion in tax breaks across five different programs statewide.

6 years ago

Kate McClure and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico started a GoFundMe campaign for homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt (right). (GoFundMe)
Courts & Law

After GoFundMe scam, N.J. lawmaker seeks tougher penalty for crowdfunding swindlers

A South Jersey couple and a homeless Philadelphia man fabricated the feel-good tale, prosecutors say, to trick the public into donating to a crowdfunding site.

6 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney observes a pre-K class in Southwest Philadelphia Friday. (Tom MacDonald/ WHYY)
Education

Pre-K expansion in Philadelphia celebrates second anniversary

With court battles over the city's sweetened beverage tax in the rearview mirror, Mayor Jim Kenney celebrates two years of expanded pre-K — and plans for further growth.

6 years ago

The ShopRite at 67th Street and Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia will close in March. Its owner blames the city's tax on sweetened beverages for diminishing business. (Google maps)
Politics & Policy

West Philadelphia ShopRite closing, owner blames soda tax

Once the store closes in March, Jeff Brown says, the workforce at his stores in the city will have shrunk by about 300 since the tax took effect.

6 years ago

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Protesters with NYC Fight for $15 gather in front of a McDonalds to rally against fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who was President Trump's nominee to lead the Labor Department on February 13, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Minimum wages rising in 20 states and several cities

The federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 an hour since 2009, but in the years since, 29 states and the District of Columbia have established higher minimum wages.

6 years ago

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