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Proposal: city workers surrender pensions, get cash buyout – City Controller Alan Butkovitz thinks he has a solution for Philadelphia’s staggeringly underfunded pension fund: buyouts. Butkovitz is proposing that the city offer up-front cash payments to retirees, who, if they…

By Jane M. Von Bergen – Angelo R. Perryman was a 32-year-old African American working in construction in Detroit when contractors building the Convention Center tapped him for a key job in the early 1990s. As part of a mandate…

By Joseph N. DiStefano Mayor Kenney joined business groups, construction and janitors’ union leaders, and state legislators from both parties Friday to endorse a tax-reform plan backed by Center City’s biggest office landlord.  A bill sponsored by State Reps. John…

By Joe Hernandez – The leader of New Jersey’s Assembly said he will block any bid to take over Atlantic City that gives the state the ability to cancel collective bargaining agreements. Speaker Vincent Prieto, D-Hudson, said any attempt to…

BY David Cochran  – By late 1940, the United States finally was pulling out of the Great Depression. American entry into World War II was still a year away, but the war in Europe led to increased American military spending, fueling…