Didi Anderson walked two blocks from her home to the ShopRite in West Philadelphia on Wednesday morning to buy a can of peas for beef stew. Read more
Texas may be the biggest natural gas producer in the country, but Pennsylvania isn't far behind - and it's gaining. Read more
Countless independent studies have shown that mandated wage hikes lead to reduced hours and outright job loss. Read more
Greatest plunge in restaurant jobs in roughly 20 years Read more
It's encouraging to continue to hear Gov. Tom Wolf champion an issue that has been one of our priorities for years: Read more
The Post-Gazette's Feb. 13 editorial "Paying Their Fair Share" calling for a severance tax perpetuates a trend among certain elected officials to go after specific industries for taxation in order to pay for more government spending. Read more
Economics 101: When Amazon pulled out of New York, the loss of 25,000 future jobs made headlines. Read more
On Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolf proposed raising Pennsylvania's minimum wage to $12 per hour, with plans to increase it by 50 cents annually until it reaches $15 per hour by 2025. Read more
Gov. Tom Wolf is asking the Republican-controlled state House and Senate to sign on to a sweeping new infrastructure plan. Read more
Governor Tom Wolf has pushed to increase Pennsylvania's minimum wage every year since he took office in 2015. Read more
Infrastructure is the framework upon which our lives are built. Read more
A state agency projects that natural gas impact fee collections for 2018 will exceed those from 2017 by $37.4 million. Read more
Pennsylvania's impact fee on shale gas wells is expected to raise a record $247 million this year, driven in part by the anticipated receipt of millions of dollars in past fees that the state plans to collect after winning a state Supreme Court case last month. Read more
Impact fees on unconventional natural gas operations in Pennsylvania hit a single-year high in 2018, according to the state's Independent Fiscal Office. Read more
The fee Pennsylvania collects from natural gas drillers is expected to reach a record $247 million this year, according to figures released Thursday by the state's Independent Fiscal Office. Read more
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 80 million hourly paid workers in the United States. Only 221,000 hourly paid workers age 25 or over earn the federal minimum wage. Read more
When Heidi Mann and her husband Karam took a leap of faith 15 years ago and purchased a Subway franchise in Seattle, they had no idea that one day their dreams could be shattered by the city's required increases in the minimum wage. Read more
Pipelines are safer than tank cars as long as they are built the right way. Read more
The continued push for a natural gas severance tax and safeguards against opioid addiction may well be taken up in the state Legislature this year. Read more
Pennsylvania's two public pension systems received a wake-up call on Dec. 20, delivered by a review commission in a 400-page report. Read more