Working & The Economy

We’ve put data from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to use here, where you can see the three highest-grossing alcohol products among retail consumers in each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties and its 10 largest cities.

The poverty rate grew in 30 percent of counties between 2016 and 2018. The poverty rate is the percentage of people in households earning less than the poverty threshold.

Pennsylvania pension fund employees annually fly to California to check on investments. But the full cost of those trips are shielded from public view. Why?

What does a private equity firm do? And why has its work, which attracts rich individuals and well-endowed institutions, become a source of controversy?

Lawmakers opposed to Pennsylvania entering an interstate compact limiting carbon emissions have gained a valuable ally — building trade unions.

Despite adding nearly  10,000 new jobs – a new record for job growth in the state - Pennsylvania is still wrestling with an unemployment rate that is higher than the national average, according to data released Friday by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

Many of charitable institutions are worthy of support now and throughout the year. But they can't do it all alone, all of the time.

The administration estimates that about 688,000 people nationwide will lose access to nutrition benefits under the new regulation.

The year-over-year loss – a decline of 0.3 percent – is the first since August 2016, when jobs dipped by 1,900 from August 2015. And it’s not as if Pittsburgh’s slide mirrors what is going on elsewhere

A House Republican who’s key to the approval of the state’s first minimum wage hike in more than a decade isn’t saying no to that hike -- but he isn’t saying yes either.