State Sen. Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) recently said he is pleased with Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella’s Private Sector Retirement Security Task Force’s findings on establishing ...
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Appalachian communities that have experienced economic growth since the Great Recession share a number of traits, researchers on the behalf of the Appalachian Regional Commission discovered. The r...
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Augmentir, a leading provider of enterprise software for industrial companies, recently launched its Augmented Operations platform. The platform combines enterprise augmented reality with artifici...
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) recently released its small business scorecard for Pennsylvania for 2019. NFIB gave a grade of F for the mandatory sick leave bill recently i...
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Senate Transportation Committee Chairwoman Kim Ward (R- Westmoreland County) recently said she will create a legislative working group to address the major challenges facing the state’s transportat...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey rebounded in March to show an improvement in manufacturing conditions in the Mid-Atlantic region. Many of t...
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In 2018, Pennsylvania accounted for 25 percent of growth in natural-gas power generation, 4.4 gigawatts, according to a report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Nineteen natural...
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The Lehigh Valley “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” awards ceremony was held Feb. 26 in Bethlehem. The ceremony honors students who participated in the WSCM program developed by Manufact...
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Site Selection magazine recently named Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley one of the top five fastest-growing regions with under a million people in the United States. It was also recognized as the fa...
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Pennsylvania State University in fiscal year 2017 contributed more than $11.6 billion to the state’s economy and, directly and indirectly, supported more than 105,000 jobs, according to study by Da...
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Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell said during a recent state hearing that natural gas has helped Pennsylvania to meet its Clean Power Plan goals. “We were ...
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Last year, the 11 Bridgeworks client companies earned nearly $7 million in revenue, a 50 percent spike from 2017, the Allentown Economic Development Corp. recently announced. The annual Incubator ...
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The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, a program that partners client companies with resources that help them prosper through innovation, was responsible for creating 480 ...
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Carnegie Mellon University and Lockheed Martin recently signed a new master research agreement to expand the organization's research partnership and guide future joint research projects. Lockheed ...
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Five Pennsylvania locations made the American Transportation Research Institute’s (ATRI) top 100 most congested bottlenecks for trucks in the United States. The locations are I-76 at I-676 in Ph...
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If three in 10 vehicles in Pennsylvania were electric, the state would gain nearly $2.8 billion in benefits, according to a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) plan. Benefits includ...
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The planning commissions from six counties received an award from the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association for their role in the Alleghenies Ahead multicounty plan. The plan hi...
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Alcoa Corporation, a Pittsburgh-based global producer of aluminum, recently announced that John Slaven would join the company as its new executive vice president and chief strategy officer, effective ...
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The Education and Labor Committee announced Tuesday that Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) will serve as the Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee’s Higher Education and Workforce Inv...
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Pennsylvania House Majority Whip Kerry Benninghoff, the chamber’s No. 3 Republican leader for the 2019-2020 legislative session, thinks the state’s tax structure should be reformed. “For the mo...
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