by Keira Wingate | Feb 28, 2021 | Featured, Manufacturing
American households and businesses ordered more long-lasting goods in January, a sign that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t slowed down consumer or business spending. The Department of Commerce said Thursday that the growth rate increased 3.4% on long-lasting goods like...
by Alexandra White | Feb 25, 2021 | Featured, Housing
Home prices continued to increase in December, signaling a high demand for single-family homes because of low mortgage rates and a shrinking supply of homes for sale. Nationally, home prices in December rose 10.4% from a year earlier, according to the S&P...
by Francisco Velasquez | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured, Retail
Retail sales in the U.S. increased in January, showing early signs that consumer spending is picking up as cases of the Covid-19 virus decline and the additional relief, assuming it comes will help, but the $900 billion package passed in December, is already helping. ...
by Jill Shah | May 28, 2020 | Featured, Manufacturing
Elisha Tropper adapted on the fly to the new reality for his company, Cambridge Security Seals. The business occupies a 25,000 square-foot facility in Pomona, New York, manufacturing seals for global industries such as healthcare, aviation, and pharmaceuticals. He...
by Baidi Wang | May 22, 2020 | Employment, Featured
Pennsylvania is among the states hit hardest by the coronavirus, with 1,907,314 unemployment claims filed from March 15 to May 20. But Centre County, in the very middle of the state, is suffering less from shutdowns than the rest of the state. As a university town,...
by Erika Wheless | May 18, 2020 | Featured, Housing
Like other landlords across the country, Larry Crites is concerned when he hears the words “rent strike”. Crites is a landlord for 8 buildings and 48 units in Seattle, Washington, and has been a property manager for 33 years. “There is a lot of talk about supporting...