Economy

The $6.1 billion spending plan also includes funding for recruitment of city workers to battle a staffing crisis.

The multipurpose sports complex opened in 2019 and is home for the Blue Boats, the 76ers minor league team. The facility expects 2 million visitors and users this year.

The United Kingdom and the European Union have signed a new agreement intended to solve one of the thorniest challenges created by Brexit.

Mortgage rates are still elevated. Home prices are still considerably higher than they were pre-pandemic. And inventory is low.

Cuban American icon Celia Cruz is being honored along with four other influential American women as part of the American Women Quarters Program.

With prizes being handed out in 91 categories, a lot of folks stand to see career boosts due to the Grammy Awards.

Though smaller than its previous hike the latest move will likely further raise the costs of many consumer and business loans and the risk of a recession.

Chair Jerome Powell is still likely to stress, though, that the Fed’s campaign to conquer high inflation is far from over.

The proposal for fiscal 2024 stresses new investments in education, housing, and the environment, plus significant pay raises for many state employees.

The Treasury Department says it has started taking “extraordinary measures” as the government has run up against its legal borrowing capacity of $31.381 trillion.

Amazon, Salesforce and Goldman Sachs have also announced cuts during a brutal January for corporate workers.

The BBEx Network on Sunday brought together Black and brown professionals from across Philly to hear from some of the mayoral candidates directly.

The state-appointed receiver testified in court that city officials are blocking his efforts to save the bankrupt city and behaving unethically.

The U.S. endured 18 separate billion-dollar disasters in 2022, highlighting the growing damages of human-caused climate change.

Workers earning minimum wage in 23 states and the District of Columbia got a raise over the New Year's holiday, according to the Economic Policy Institute.