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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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A jogger can be seen in the distance running in Wilmington
Community

Fintech startup Investor Cash Management moves headquarters, possibly 400 jobs to Wilmington

Investor Cash Management will spend up to $15 million on building its new headquarters and customer service center in Wilmington.

4 years ago

Instacart shopper Christine Meyers reaches for an item at the Giant food store
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Number of women doing gig work in Philly region surged during COVID-19

Women are picking up gig work in droves, many motivated by the need for flexibility. But experts say it could cost them in the long term.

4 years ago

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Striking bus drivers with Teamsters Local 326 stand outside the First Student bus yard
Community

Delaware school bus strike ends, drivers back to work Friday

School bus drivers with Teamsters Local 326 are on strike for better benefits from First Student bus company. They’ve been without a contract since August 31.

4 years ago

FILE- Richard Bensinger, left, who is advising unionization efforts, along with baristas Casey Moore, right, Brian Murray, second from left, and Jaz Brisack, second from right, discuss their efforts to unionize three Buffalo-area stores, inside the movements headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021 in Buffalo, N.Y. The National Labor Relations Board is scheduled to count ballots Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, from union elections held at three separate Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area. Around 111 Starbucks workers from the three stores were eligible to vote by mail starting last month.(AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson, File)
Community

Starbucks workers vote to unionize at Buffalo, N.Y. store

The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that workers voted 19-8 in favor of a union at one of three locations. The board is still counting votes for two other stores.

4 years ago

The El is pictured at Huntingdon Septa station
Urban Planning

As crime levels spike, SEPTA police shift into overtime gear

SEPTA’s police force will begin working longer hours in an effort to prevent crime over the holidays on the mass transit system.

4 years ago

A Tony the Tiger decal gestures nexts to a sign that says Kellogg Omaha
NPR
Money

Kellogg to hire permanent replacements for striking workers who rejected proposed contract

Temporary employees have been working at the company's cereal plants across Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee after the strike began in October.

4 years ago

(photo credit, Luke Sekou)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Tipped workers and the fight for a livable wage

Tipped workers make a subminimum wage and during the pandemic tips have declined while harassment has increased. This hour, improving work and wages for tipped workers.

Air Date: December 10, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:01
Be. Do. Love call for stories. (Courtesty of Love Now Media)
Community

Be. Do. Love: A new initiative seeks career stories inspired by love

Be. Do. Love: Career Stories Inspired by Love is a new initiative that invites professionals to share what is at the heart of the work that they do.

4 years ago

Listen 5:59
Plantains are moved back in to shipping containers after being inspected at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Centralized Inspection Station in South Philadelphia. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Community

At a key Pa. port complex, long-term problems and short-term staffing issues are colliding

The Port is on track to process 740,000 containers by year's end — up 15 percent from last year.

4 years ago

The Amazon warehouse at the center of a high-profile unionization drive is seen on March 29 in Bessemer, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Amazon warehouse workers get to re-do their union vote in Alabama

A U.S. labor-board official is ordering a re-vote after an agency review found Amazon improperly pressured warehouse staff to vote against joining a union.

4 years ago

A closeup of a Wawa sign
Money
Billy Penn

Wawa ranks as Pennsylvania’s largest privately-owned company

$11 billion in sales puts it at No. 29 in the nation.

4 years ago

A police officer drives in Philadelphia
Courts & Law

Philly police dispatchers indicted for collecting pandemic unemployment, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say the employees fraudulently collected Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, while also collecting their city paychecks.

4 years ago

John ''Johnny Doc'' Dougherty gestures as he is driven from the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Dougherty was found guilty of conspiracy charges Monday in his corruption trial. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Community

Union leader John Dougherty resigns as leader of IBEW Local 98 one day after conviction

Dougherty tendered his resignation before the Local 98 Executive Board on Monday evening, the union said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.

4 years ago

FILE - Marriott human resources recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros, during a job fair at Hard Rock Stadium, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.  Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September, while businesses and other employers continued to post a near-record number of available jobs.  (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
Community

For 2nd straight month, Americans quit jobs at a record pace

Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September, in many cases for more money elsewhere.

4 years ago

United States Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm toured the ECA (Energy Coordinating Agency), an energy efficiency job training facility in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, with Jackie Robinson, ECA’s lead trainer
Politics & Policy

Energy Secretary Granholm, visiting Philly, touts infrastructure bill and expected job creation

In Kensington, Granholm said some of the new $3.5B in funds for weatherization will likely go to the Energy Coordinating Agency.

4 years ago

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