Soon after Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the country, requests for a directory of Black-owned businesses started flowing into the office of the Harrisburg-based African American Chamber of Commerce of Central Pennsylvania.

1.3 million workers filed first time claims for unemployment insurance last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. That latest round of applications means roughly 50 million Americans have made initial jobless benefits claims in just 16 weeks.

“People have a right to affordable health care and to get the best price possible for their prescription drugs,” state Rep. Valerie Gaydos

The GOP-led state House of Representatives approved, largely on party lines, a bill that would require the General Assembly’s approval of any measure by state environmental authorities to “abate, control or limit carbon dioxide emissions by imposing a revenue-generating or fee on dioxide emissions.”

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Co. furloughed 603 employees, part of two rounds of layoffs at the company following the closure of non-life sustaining businesses by Gov. Tom Wolf in March.

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Montour County-based Geisinger was awarded $978,000 from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to put towards equipment for the system’s telehealth services.

Armstrong Flooring appointed Gregory D. Waina interim chief financial officer, effective June 29. Waina will oversee global finance, treasury, investor relations and accounting functions.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey told a room of midstate business leaders that he is cautiously optimistic about the country’s reopening, that he expects a fifth COVID-19 relief bill to pass through the U.S. Senate in the coming weeks and that the bill could feature a provision on liability protection.

A list of 34 central Pennsylvania companies who received up to $10 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan money was disclosed on Monday by the Small Business Administration.

Casher said his grandfather, who died in 2005, imparted to him the entrepreneurial ambition and leadership style that sustained the third-generation, family-owned business through the Great Depression, World War II, the 2008 Recession and now the COVID-19 pandemic.

While many institutions are canceling the fall 2020 sports season, some are giving it the green light, albeit with new safety precautions in place.

Industrial brokers in several tertiary markets across the country have been experiencing an exponential growth in the demand for industrial space in the 5,000- to 30,000-square-foot range.

“It will also help them with any increased costs that have been incurred due to the pandemic – things like cleaning and sanitization, which will help keep the 386,000 children who attend our licensed child care facilities safe, as well as the workers who do so much to care for them.”

The Hershey Co. closed on the purchase of a parcel of land in South Annville Township, Lebanon County last month that will be the grounds for a planned 800,000-square-foot warehouse and packaging center.