The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has unfairly and naively criticized Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto for his efforts to persuade Amazon to locate its second headquarters in the Steel City. His plan is too secretive, the newspaper says, as though business negotiations of this kind are conducted publicly. They aren’t. Preliminary plans and negotiations are always confidential, […]
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Embattled Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) recently took to the airwaves to answer questions why Pennsylvania has continued to shed jobs under his Administration. In an effort to explain Pennsylvania’s dismal job growth, Governor Corbett said that while businesses want to hire more workers, they can’t find qualified applicants because too many Pennsylvanians use illegal […]
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CEO pay was 354 times that of the average worker last year, according to the AFL-CIO’s new Executive PayWatch database. The labor group asserts that this is “by far the largest pay gap in the world.” In 2012, the chief executives of some of the country’s largest companies earned an average of $12.3 million in compensation compared to […]
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