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HERSHEY — Nearly 4,000 people representing local governments across the state’s 1,546 townships gathered in Hershey this week for the Pennsylvania Sta...

HARRISBURG — A budget hearing on Tuesday in the state Capitol highlighted an ongoing labor wage rate concern that has some worried about Pennsylvania’...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Se. John Fetterman, D-Pa., applauded the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for publishing a rule that will end a decades-lo...

HARRISBURG — Twenty-one states across the US are raising the minimum wage in 2025. Pennsylvania Democrats would like to see the commonwealth soon join...

Confounding pundits and pollsters alike, Californians voted against increasing the minimum wage this November. Buried in the headlines of the 2024 pre...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, announced a new Biden Administration proposed rule th...

The digital divide — the gap between communities with and without access to high-speed internet — is a prominent issue in Pennsylvania. More than 330,...

I’ve spent nearly 25 years working as an instructional paraprofessional with kids in the State College Area School District, and it is the hardest job...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — As the pandemic plunged families into financial uncertainty, even temporary safety nets and bigger paychecks haven’t been enough to...

If you have a child in a day care program, congratulations are in order. You were lucky that you were able to get them enrolled in one, given how long...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS) is making a huge investment in its workforce that will affect the employees at Bradford Regional Me...

The unemployment rate now matches the pre-pandemic, half-century low of 3.5 percent. But with 2.8 million missing workers, low unemployment is both a ...

Hundreds of workers from 14 Pennsylvania nursing homes went on strike Friday after contract negotiations failed to produce a deal. About 700 unionized...

One hundred forty years ago, the first Labor Day parade almost ended before it began. On Sept. 5, 1882, thousands of union workers, police officers an...

Gov. Tom Wolf finally overcame eight years of blind legislative obstruction Monday when the Independent Regulatory Review Commission approved a long-o...

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, March 23, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA) held a hearing entitled, “An Economy That Cares:...

Due to the gender wage gap, each woman in Pennsylvania will lose an average of about $460,000 over the course of her lifetime, according to the Pennsy...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A new study by a Pennsylvania hospital trade group found the average per hour wage paid to a medical staffing agency for a nurse as...

Consumer prices jumped 7.5% compared to last January, with necessities — electricity, gasoline, used cars, many food items — up at astonishing levels....

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has joined a Republican colleague in the Senate to introduce legislation that would raise wages for workers with d...