Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
Pennsylvania’s payrolls are continuing to grow, but a persistent worker shortage is still keeping labor markets tight.
Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
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A trademark tiff between America’s oldest beer maker and its best-selling beer brand appears to be over before it really began. Last week, D.G. Yuengling & Son demanded its much larger rival, Anheuser-Busch, stop using a tagline for its forthcoming Bud Light Next zero-carb beer. -
More than 99% of farm producers in Pennsylvania are white, but groups in Pittsburgh are seeking to diversify the sector. Their work could help to avert an impending shortage of agricultural workers.
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Giant Eagle-brand salad mixes are among 10 brands being recalled due to a risk of listeria contamination. The meal-kit maker Fresh Express issued the recall on Monday after a random sample test of one of their salad kits tested positive for the bacteria.
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Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell for the ninth month in a row and payrolls grew again in November, but the labor force shrank.
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UPMC launches its own in-house travel nursing corp as a way to deal with staffing shortages.
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Pennsylvania will no longer impose state income taxes on public sector workers and nurses who receive student loan forgiveness from two major programs.
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Southwest Pennsylvania has been named one of 60 finalists in the U.S. Commerce Department’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge.
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Many local organic farmers had their best season ever in 2020. But with this year’s inflation at its highest since 1990, farms are facing uncertainty in 2022 as they grapple with rising costs of farming inputs like fertilizer, seed, propane and greenhouse plastic.
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The Allegheny County Health Department is weighing new housing enforcement measures next year, as data shows that some of the worst violators pay nothing.
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Pennsylvania farmers are getting older, and state officials say there aren’t enough people to take over what is often grueling work that doesn’t make much money. But changing the nature of the job could help to raise a new generation of agricultural workers.
