Legislation soon to be introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate would make the months of June and July sales tax holidays. The state normally collects a 6 percent sales tax. In the United States,...
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Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Dr. Noe Ortega visited Dauphin County Technical School (DCTS) Thursday to celebrate CTE Month and highlight the importance of career and technical education. ...
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Four members of Pennsylvania’s Congressional delegation recently sent a letter to the U.S. House Small Business Committee expressing their support for the Certified Development Company 504 (CDC/504)...
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As the nation’s second-largest natural gas producer, Pennsylvania is in a unique position to aid America’s European allies during the current Ukraine crisis and beyond, Pennsylvania House Republic...
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U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) announced Tuesday his new “Business & Economic Roundtable,” which seeks to help local business leaders work together and navigate his economic policy. The panel ...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf launched Pennsylvania’s Broadband Development Authority to manage the more than $100 million in federal aid that will be used to roll out broadband across the state. Th...
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Venture Connection, a matchmaking event between capital-seeking startups and venture capital investors, is currently accepting applications. Participants are pre-matched based on numerous criteria...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Education will award up to $10 million in PAsmart Advancing grants to prepare students for computer science (CS) and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) ca...
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Legislation soon to be introduced in the state Senate seeks to address Pennsylvania’s labor shortage. The Small Business Workforce Tax Credit would incentivize hiring to pull more residents back ...
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The state’s Manufacturing PA Training-to-Career Grant program recently awarded $335,000 to two organizations to develop initiatives raising awareness of the opportunities available in the manufactur...
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Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2022-2023 budget proposal includes at least $22 million for Ben Franklin Technology Partner, an estimated $2 million increase for each of the four regionally-based Ben Franklin cente...
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Pennsylvania generated more than 230 million MWh of electricity in 2020, which is more than every state except Texas and Florida, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Fur...
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Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday unveiled a $43.7 billion state budget proposal for the 2022-2023 fiscal year that takes advantage of a record surplus to invest in education, but critics said the large spendi...
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Jennifer Berrier, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, said Friday the state will invest $2.5 million in a grant program designed to boost workforce development and industry r...
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Gov. Tom Wolf said his administration will invest an additional $246 million into the Port of Philadelphia, creating thousands of jobs. On Friday, Wolf said the state would add to the investment i...
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The Governor’s Action Team recently released its annual report for fiscal year 2020-2021, which showed that there were 9,554 new jobs created in Pennsylvania, with the greatest growth in the northea...
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Officials at a manufacturing caucus on Tuesday said Pennsylvania’s manufacturing industry was the eighth-largest in the country, with an economic impact of $92 billion. The comments came during t...
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The state Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) recently awarded more than $3 million in Business-Education Partnership (BEP) Grant funding to 22 workforce development organizations statewide. The o...
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s effort to exit from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in January should be a wake-up call for Pennsylvania, state Sen. Gene Yaw (R-23rd) said. RGGI is t...
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Pennsylvania recently received $25 million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for plugging orphaned and abandoned wells. The sum is part of the $104 million the state will receive fro...
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