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Once incarcerated, this Philly area man is opening the barber school of his dreams — so others can chase theirs

Final Touch Academy will offer scholarships and life lessons along with scissor skills.

Most of Philly’s new jobs are being added in low-wage industries

The city's workforce growth is mostly in positions that pay $35,000 or less.

Summer bike commute: Tips on how to avoid being a sweaty mess

Go slow, install a basket and don't forget to bring a towel.

Gritty’s looking for a job: 12 uniquely Philly recommendations for the orange free agent

Who needs a seven-person street sweeping crew when you could use one hairy mascot?

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Philabundance is trying out the “food-plus” model — the org will continue to help relieve hunger, and now also team up with additional nonprofits to provide housing, job assistance and education

Italian helicopter manufacturer Leonardo is investing $65 million in a 60,000-square-foot Philly campus

The government shutdown is over, but this Philly woman is still delivering crowdfunded care packages to those who are awaiting backpay

Unemployed in West Philly? Residents can get landscaping jobs through a neighborhood job-training program

Nurses were protesting unfair labor conditions today outside Hahnemann and St. Christopher’s. They’ve been trying to negotiate new contracts for months.

Philly ranks 14th in the nation for its number of six-figure earners

Philadelphia is hoping to start a worker coop movement, starting with Woodland Avenue, East Passyunk Avenue and 52nd Street

Axalta’s new innovation center in the Navy Yard is the world’s largest coatings R&D lab

Set to open in December, the Met Philadelphia hosted a job fair in North Philly. They got more than 1,000 applications for 200 open positions

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What Philly can learn from Albuquerque’s lauded approach to fighting endemic poverty

City Council might set regular hours for every McDonald’s employee in Philly

Everything you need to know about Philadelphia's fair workweek bill.

Philly Starbucks arrests

Six months after the unwarranted arrests of two black men at a Philly Starbucks, the company is hosting a job fair in the city (and Meek Mill showed up)

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Nearly 14k city employees are probably going to start making more money for doing the same amount of work, basically just because they implemented a new payroll system

If you go by where Amazon’s been posting new jobs, Philadelphia is dead last on the list of potential HQ2 cities

A new monthly program where Philly Police escort employers around to conduct job interviews on street corners starts tonight

Philly’s only majority-black building trades union is moving from Chester County to North Broad

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