Philadelphia has a complex and antiquated tax system that has long been criticized for driving employers and jobs away from Philadelphia by making it expensive to conduct business in the City. The centerpiece of the Philadelphia tax system is the Philadelphia wage tax, which raised more than $1.6...
The gender wage gap is the difference in pay between men and women for the same job. Currently, women make about 80 cents for every dollar a man brings in — that’s a gender wage gap of 20 percent.
"But it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the Constitution and the act.A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and contentaccording to the circumstances and the time in which it is u...
Vivian Hunt is a senior partner in the London office, and Bob Sternfels is the next global managing partner of McKinsey & Company. Haiyang Zhang is a consultant based in the Philadelphia office. This report was edited by Lisa Renaud, executive editor with the McKinsey...
But there is a bright spot: Your credit can start to improve within months of filing, and the change may be especially marked if you were already delinquent on your debts. A 2014 report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that those who filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy saw their ...
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"I had tariffs, and yet I had no inflation," Trump said during the debate in Philadelphia. "Look, we've had a terrible economy because inflation — which is really known as a country-buster — it breaks up countries." A tariff hike to 60% on Chinese imports and 10 to 20% on all...
Wilcox’s departure and other vacancies leaves the five-member board without a quorum to make rulings on federal labor law. Whole Foods argued that its average starting pay in Philadelphia was higher than the city’s average retail wage, but Monday’s vote passed 130-100. Whole Foods could...
The law school’s joint program with the renowned Wharton School of Business is among the most sought-after joint levels within the country. Located on the main campus in Philadelphia, admission to Penn Law is notably aggressive with lower than 15% of applicants being admitted. The scholar phys...
Is the Philadelphia Wage Tax Unconstitutional? And If It Is, What Can and Should the City Do? That tax has been challenged as unconstitutional in light of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Wynne v. Comptroller of Maryland, which struck down a... MS Knoll,R Mason - 《U.s.constitution...