Pennsylvania

“Unprecedented is just too weak a word for this,” said Gretchen Blough, a customs brokerage manager at Logistics Plus.

Philadelphia’s unemployment rate has risen recently, from 4.5% to 5.3%. That is a whole percentage point higher than the state and national average.

Beaver County’s population has been declining since the steel mill there closed 40 years ago. The shift to plastic manufacturing isn’t panning out, so some residents are investing in a different kind of economic model.

The Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania has a booming manufacturing sector and is fast becoming a major logistics hub.

This weekend marks 20 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. We check in on Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed in a field. Marketplace’s Nova Safo joins us from Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine says she’s confident in the state’s plan for rolling out vaccines.

Pennsylvania elections official Kenneth Lawrence says Montgomery County is gearing up for a deluge of mail-in ballots, and there won’t be a final result on election night.

Operation LIPSTICK (Ladies Involved in Putting a Stop to Inner-City Killing), reaches out to women and teenage girls to warn them about the risks of making straw purchases — up to ten years in prison under federal law.

Some expect economic benefit from a casino in the works. Others question whether it will change the community.

The nuclear power plant will be “retired” at the end of September, but the state wants to support the four remaining plants.