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Tupperware items, including a set of "retro" storage containers at left, rest on a table during a Tupperware party in Sebastian, Fla., in 2022.

Business

Love for Tupperware wasn’t enough to save it from bankruptcy

The “burping” plastic containers have been a kitchen staple for almost eight decades. But the company could not overcome evolving shopping behaviors and increased competition.

Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post

Sean O'Brien, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, speaks to media as picketing rail workers gather at the CPKC headquarters in Calgary, Alta., in August.

National Politics

Teamsters union declines to endorse Trump or Harris for president

Josh Boak and Tom Krisher, Associated Press

A salesperson shows an unsold 2024 Cooper SE electric hardtop to a prospective buyer in the showroom of a Mini dealership in May in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Nation & World

The Federal Reserve is finally lowering rates. Here’s what consumers should know

Cora Lewis, Associated Press

A view of the Philadelphia skyline taken from 54th and Lancaster Ave. on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.

Business

A third of self-employed entrepreneurs in Philly are immigrants, and other insights from new Pew reports

Ariana Perez-Castells

The "legacy" Wawa on Route 70 in Cherry Hill. The small-footprint store, without gas or public restrooms, is closing in October, nearly two years after a proposal to replace it with a Super Wawa across the street at the Barclay shopping center fell through after community opposition.

New Jersey

Cherry Hill’s Route 70 Wawa is closing after 50 years. Here’s why.

Kevin Riordan

Economy

Joel L. Naroff: Managing the sunsetting 2017 tax cuts could be the biggest test of the next Congress and president

A massive political battle over personal taxes vs. corporate taxes, and high-income earners taxes vs. lower- and middle-income household taxes is coming in 2025.

Joel L. Naroff, For The Inquirer

Getting anything done in Congress is difficult even when a simple majority is required.

Economy

Joel L. Naroff: Managing the sunsetting 2017 tax cuts could be the biggest test of the next Congress and president

A massive political battle over personal taxes vs. corporate taxes, and high-income earners taxes vs. lower- and middle-income household taxes is coming in 2025.

Joel L. Naroff, For The Inquirer

Economy

Love for Tupperware wasn’t enough to save it from bankruptcy

Teamsters union declines to endorse Trump or Harris for president

The Federal Reserve is finally lowering rates. Here’s what consumers should know

A third of self-employed entrepreneurs in Philly are immigrants, and other insights from new Pew reports

Cherry Hill’s Route 70 Wawa is closing after 50 years. Here’s why.

Joel L. Naroff: Managing the sunsetting 2017 tax cuts could be the biggest test of the next Congress and president

Joel L. Naroff: Managing the sunsetting 2017 tax cuts could be the biggest test of the next Congress and president

Harris proposes a (mostly) solid plan to boost the U.S. economy

While Pennsylvania struggles to legalize, Delaware opens applications for marijuana licenses

Harris zeroes in on high food and housing prices as inflation plays a big role in the campaign

U.S. inflation slowed again in July, clearing the way for the Fed to begin cutting interest rates