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FILE - Amazon employees load packages on carts before being put on to trucks for distribution to customers for Amazon's annual Prime Day event at an Amazon's DAX7 delivery station on July 16, 2024, in South Gate, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Business

Amazon, Target, and other retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday shopping season

Amazon says it will hire 250,000 workers, same as last year. Some retailers said they will scale back their seasonal hiring.

Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press

David Josaphouitch (left), 34, of Southwest Philadelphia, a member of Local 1242 of the International Longshoremen's Association, pickets at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. He is a checker at the Port of Philadelphia.

Business

Dockworkers join other unions in trying to fend off automation, or minimize the impact

Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press

Prosecutors say George Norcross (right) obtained developer Carl Dranoff's property rights in Camden through extortion. Norcross denies the allegation and has pleaded not guilty.

Business

How power broker George Norcross may try to undercut ‘iconic’ developer Carl Dranoff’s credibility in racketeering case

Andrew Seidman and Jeremy Roebuck

Dockworkers from Port Miami display signs at a picket line in Miami.

Business

Dockworkers’ union to suspend strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract

Tom Krisher, Associated Press

Some customers and retailers in the Philadelphia region say they had seen heightened demand for paper products because of the port strike, despite the fact that most toilet paper and paper towels are made domestically. In this 2020 file photo, a Colorado shopper buys toilet paper amid that year's pandemic-induced panic-buying spree.

Business

Toilet paper, paper towel panic-buying came back in parts of the Philly area

Erin McCarthy

Economy

Opinion

PennDot could keep I-95 from bigfooting Philadelphia by supporting transit

Given the urgency of fighting climate change, PennDot needs to stop widening its highways to accommodate traffic and instead get more people to ride transit.

Inga Saffron

Jay Arzu, a doctoral candidate in urban planning at the University of Pennsylania, believes PennDot should focus on improving transit instead of widening I-95. He has single-handedly resurrected a proposal to build a Roosevelt Boulevard subway, which would give motorists an alternative to the highway.

Opinion

PennDot could keep I-95 from bigfooting Philadelphia by supporting transit

Given the urgency of fighting climate change, PennDot needs to stop widening its highways to accommodate traffic and instead get more people to ride transit.

Inga Saffron

Business