Results tagged “recession”

Okay, so technically the photo caption on this piece explains that Pearl of the East (which is at 19th and Chestnut) is no longer on Walnut, but if you're going to put a story on your front page (albeit below the fold) with a headline about tough times come to Walnut, , couldn't you at least have run it with a shot of an empty storefront on the right street? Like, the one accompanying the online version of the story, maybe?

Phillyist is fairly sure that everyone has heard about the city's money troubles...and the state's money troubles...and the country's money troubles. We are all fairly certain, unless you live in a bubble at the bottom of the sea, that everyone knows budgets are being cut and belts are being tightened everywhere.

Yesterday, we mentioned PhillyCarShare's new rate plan, which would eliminate the Basic Freedom unpaid membership and switch all subscribers over to their $15 monthly "Philadelphia Plan." We were finally able to get a hold of (a very honest) somebody in member services today, and here's the scoop:

This marks the second post by new writer Erica Maxwell (we kind of forgot to say anything before her Asshole of the Week post last Friday). Erica, an alum of Philly's own Temple University and a native of the Philadelphia area, is a graduate student at Rutgers-Camden. She lives in West Philadelphia.

Chances are, if you're not unemployed right now, you know somebody who is.

Let's face it: the economy is in the shitter and there's not much we can do about it, other than go on with our day-to-day lives and hope that our places of employment will still be standing when it's all over. The front page of the paper is filled every day with the state of our savings accounts, with monsters of the industry no longer able to pay their employees, with sub-prime mortgages. This is not the sort of thing we want to think about, let alone talk about, so close to the holidays. And so it's time for a bit of a refresher course on what to avoid when talking to polite company—specifically, any talk of money.

Well, the video does make a valid point.