Personal Finance

Councilwoman Cherelle Parker said library fines set up barriers to accessing educational resources and services. Even minimal fines drive people away.

Poverty in America declined last year, continuing a trend that began in 2014.

"The Sacklers refused to budge," the email concluded, "and have declined to offer any counterproposal."

All the info you didn’t know you needed about the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

After months of fun billboards with a fun name, Beneficial Bank takes on the WSFS Bank name. But you can simply call them Wiss Fiss.

If you have a shutoff notice, the utility has a legal obligation to explain all the options you have to avoid a shutoff. Here are some options you have.

Following last year’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, some state lawmakers sought to ban pension-plan investments in gunmakers, but their bill went nowhere.

Tell us your questions about gaining access to capital or drumming up business. We’ll report out the answers.

Lots of people have student loans: more than 45 million people. They collectively owe about $1.6 trillion.

The bipartisan legislation extends foreclosure protection and mortgage relief programs for certain Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners.

Workers facing layoffs at Hahnemann and Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery will walk into radically different job markets.

The program most of us refer to as "welfare" began as Aid to Dependent Children during the New Deal, and offered financial assistance to women.

The minimum wage has been the same since 2009. Gov. Tom Wolf and his fellow Democrats want to more than double it. Though it looks like they are willing to settle for less.

Pennsylvania ranks No. 1 in the nation for student debt. Why is the debt burden is so high here and how is that affecting the way students and grads live?

Pa.’s unemployment rate has been on the decline over the last year but the picture is different when looking at individual areas across the state.