Results tagged “economy”

In yet another stunning display of blatant disregard for the economic plight of his constituents, the City of Philadelphia, and the state of Pennsylvania, Republican Minority Whip Frank Rizzo, Jr. (son of the ex-mayor depicted in the statue at right) is the lone City Council member intending to accept his cost of living raise this year. Other members—wiser, more informed, more considerate members—are planning to give the money back to the general fund, or to various city charities. They're primarily doing so in order to show solidarity with union workers who are shit out of luck being asked to decline pay raises for 4 years.

Freshness: we has it, in the form of neighborhood food co-ops.

Beware, oh industry hipsters.

Get the complete run-down on city employees.

Hail hail the queers are all here: PW celebrates Equality Forum with a Queer Issue.

Sure we want more, but we're Philly, i.e. we know they'll choke.

CineFest/Philadelphia Film Festival time is upon us, and some reviews, including a few of local-based documentaries, are in.

We're really bad about using Amazon for everything, but we're going to try really really hard to be better. Losing Robin's made us die a little inside.

Hey, if Philly was where this nation's first financial crisis was fixed, maybe Philly can help provide the solution this time, too. Just not with a seventeen percent property tax increase.

We're with Isaiah: tell us about some young white Christian kids moving in Kensington and we get twitchy. But turns out they're really the real deal.

This is a strange story with many different implications, not the least of which is simple. It’s a situation in which nobody seems to be right. We’ll do our best to wade through this murky situation.

Improv drummer + YouTube = World domination. Kinda.

The Brothers Quay bring the dark to animation, and bless them for it.

An in depth look at Olney, the forgotten stepchild of Philly neighborhoods.

Who is causing all the fires in Coatesville? Theories abound, but answers are still elusive.

Chances are, if you're not unemployed right now, you know somebody who is.

We got our own musical phenom making good. Sniff. We're so proud.

Like it or not, we're going green; CP gives you a survival guide.

Let's face it: the economy is in the shitter and there's not much we can do about it, other than go on with our day-to-day lives and hope that our places of employment will still be standing when it's all over. The front page of the paper is filled every day with the state of our savings accounts, with monsters of the industry no longer able to pay their employees, with sub-prime mortgages. This is not the sort of thing we want to think about, let alone talk about, so close to the holidays. And so it's time for a bit of a refresher course on what to avoid when talking to polite company—specifically, any talk of money.

It seems these days that everyone wants a piece of the $700 billion bailout bill, and now you, Philadelphia bicyclist, can have your piece of the monetary pie. Hidden within the bailout bill was a provision for anyone who bikes to work "regularly" to receive a $20 a month tax break from their employers, courtesy of the federal government.

A week's worth of local Craigslist hijinks.

Classical Values blames the Democrats for the economic crisis because they forced banks to give low interest mortgages to minorities in the name of socialism. Ummmmmm, ok?

Philebrity applauded the installation of solar panels at the Philadelphia Naval Yard while simultaneously making fun of Naval Yard denizen Urban Outfitters. Maybe next we'll get some windmills. We know of a few places to put them where there's plenty of hot air being blown about.