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HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced more than $5.6 million of unclaimed property is owed to residents of McKean County. “Every dollar can m...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — If I were a mystery novelist instead of an economist, I’d call it “The Case of the Missing Workers.” I’m referring to the fact that...

A group of eight Democratic progressive U.S. House members known as “The Squad” have filed $224 million of earmarks in the federal budget since 2023 t...

(TNS) — Cash grants that help keep thousands of Pennsylvanians with low incomes stay warm during the winter months are on hold. The temporary pause ma...

All the fearmongering in Washington over the $1.5 trillion federal budget deficit hides a truth few politicians would admit — that hefty headline numb...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — We’re in a new year, but the headlines from Capitol Hill feel old. Once again, Congress has been debating its annual spending bills...

(TNS) — An innovative plan to help Pennsylvanians with crippling medical debt is delayed but not dead, supporters say. The plan calls for using state ...

Too much debt always catches up with a family, a business or a government. That’s why Moody’s Investors Service last week flipped its ratings for the ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s bad enough that Congress and the White House are making no serious effort to cut spending these days — something we all wind u...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity warned Pennsylvanians that scammers are calling residents who have applied for a Property Tax/Rent Rebate and ask...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s bad enough that the White House helped create 40-year-high inflation. But now it has the audacity to gaslight the American peo...

NEW YORK (TNS) — With the appropriations fight in Washington in overdrive, and a barely avoided government shutdown behind it — for now — Congress sho...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced Thursday, the Treasury’s historic vault that the Pennsylvania Treasury Department returned more unclaim...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity warned the public on Friday that scammers are imitating the Pennsylvania Treasury Department with sophisticated p...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to help build Major League Baseball’s smallest ballpark — arguing that the worst team in baseball can...

Broadsides to the global economy have myriad causes, not all within the control of governments. But when global economic pain is caused not by a devas...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing opioid addiction epidemic are public health crises that have cast light on a third — inadequate access to mental...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced that the upcoming online auction of unclaimed property will take place Wednesday, April 12, and Thursda...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania State Police are budgeting for a significant hiring push in the coming budget year, but a broad decline in applica...