Working & The Economy

A bill sponsored by Rep. Pat Harkins, D-Erie, aims to ensure better enforcement of safety protections in public-sector workplaces like school districts and transit authorities.

Dalia is working toward some big goals, including securing a place to live.That got harder on Aug. 1, when General Assistance ended for a second time.Dalia is a former beneficiary of the state-run program,...

A practice known as flexible pricing is still unpopular with liquor producers.

The Trump administration is “day after day rigging the system further against workers and in favor of the wealthy,” the journalist-turned-author said,

When he started knocking on doors during his inaugural campaign for state representative in 1992, Sam Rohrer noticed a topic popping up again and again — property taxes.He was aware of complaints, but the...

More than 1.5 million Pennsylvanians experience hunger. Roughly two out of seven of those people are children.

One Pennsylvania lawmaker is making his own case for reparations  — not just for slavery, but for 400 years of institutional racism. Rep. Chris Rabb, D-Philadelphia, released a memo last week asking for his colleagues’...

Now the American economy works for the wealthiest of the wealthy. It's time to rebalance the scales and restore the social contract.

The United States’ regulation of the workplace has long been an outlier among much of the world.

Pennsylvanians will enjoy an extra day of rest from their working lives during another Labor Day celebration this weekend — but workers of the world unite on the first of May, not the first...