Pennsylvania

This map by Mark Price at the Keystone Research Center shows the deepening crisis of unemployment in Pennsylvania over the past few months. When we consider that official statistics on unemployment do not include those who become discouraged by the state of the job market and no longer look for work we can suspect these numbers are much worse.

Miles de personas en el estado de Pennsylvania han recibido sus licencias de manejar con un Número de Identificación Tributaria (TIN).

Yesterday more than 70 Philadelphians headed to Harrisburg to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board Hearing for what was supposed to be a "status update" on the Philadelphia casinos.

Instead, what many of us were greeted with was essentially an ambush - the announcement that Foxwoods used the status hearing to announce that they planned to move within a matter of months into the Strawbridge's building.