Money
Philadelphia School District Publishes List of Employee Salaries
Interested to know what Philadelphia School District superintendent William Hite makes? That one I can answer for you: $270,000 a year. Interested to know what […]
Oops: Forbes Forgets Comcast’s Roberts Family on Its Richest Families List
The good folks at Forbes have put together a list of the 185 American families with fortunes of $1 billion or more, topping out at […]
The 50 Highest Paid Employees and Officers in Philadelphia Unions (and No, Johnny Doc Is Not #1)
With Philadelphia’s unions back in the news in a very big way, we thought we’d take a look at who earns what in our local […]
School District Says It Needs $216M to Avert Thousands of Layoffs
The Philadelphia school district is still broke, if you haven’t noticed. Schools superintendent William Hite says the district needs $216 million or it will have […]
Philly.com’s Frightening Finance Guru
There’s a decent chance you’ve never heard of Dave Ramsey, and the reason should be familiar: In an era when our Red State-Blue State bifurcation […]
Union League Membership Moving from Main Line to Center City, South Jersey
Is the Philadelphia old guard rich power base — or whatever — moving out of the Main Line? Let’s not write the obituary for it […]
From Altered Gravity Wrestling to Musical Houseplants, Here Are the 8 Best/Worst Philly Kickstarter Projects
Since its debut in 2009, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter* has helped raise over $1 billion in donor pledges, with more than 1,500 Kickstarter projects launched in […]
Payday Lending Bill Revived in PA
The Patriot-News reports that the Pennsylvania Senate is considering a bill that would make way for the rise of the payday lending industry in the […]
Some Towns Running Low on Road Salt
With another storm headed for Philadelphia this week, road crews are going to be out salting the roads again in the coming days. And Action […]
Expanding The Lottery Would Be A Sin
Sometimes, I like to play the lottery. Not often. Usually when the jackpot gets north of, say, $200 million. Like everybody else, I start to […]
Philly, PA Lead Nation in Bank Closings
Philadelphia Business Journal reports that Philly and Pennsylvania lead the nation in bank branch closings—Pennsylvania with 101 branches closed last year; with half of those […]
Sen. Bob Casey Campaigning for Minimum Wage Increase
Sen. Bob Casey is campaigning for an increase to the minimum wage—and trying to persuade his perhaps-skeptical rural constituents by unveiling a county-by-county poverty chart. […]
Your Crazy-Expensive Wedding is Destroying Society
Let me confess: I’m a lucky guy. When I started courting my soon-to-be-wife back in 2005, she quickly let me know she wasn’t a diamond […]
Stu Bykofsky’s Lousy Idea to Help Unemployed Workers
We suppose we should be happy that Stu Bykofsky is concerned about the plight of America’s long-term unemployed instead of, you know, insulting them. Still, […]
13 Ways to Avoid Being Broke at Christmas
Not enough money for Christmas presents? Yeah, I thought so. That’s because you spent too much money in 2013 on frivolous things. Well, that ship […]