There appears to be a fast-growing consensus that the federal transportation program should include ongoing operating assistance for mass transit, which the Federal Transit Administration has been providing under an emergency rule approved at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some advocates see such assistance as an acknowledgment that public transit is as essential as roads are to get people where they’re going. Still others see it as the way to give American cities the kind of transit service essential workers deserve and everyone else would actually use.
How much assistance would the Feds need to provide to give every U.S. city effective transit? And how much more transit service would it buy? A report from the TransitCenter research and advocacy group says the government would need to support transit to the tune of $20 billion a year and it breaks the number down to show how much better transit that would buy.
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By: BridgeTower Media Newswire Thomas A. Barstow March 5, 2021
Kelly Overlander of HB McClure takes an opening swing at a remodeling project in York. PHOTO / HB MCCLURE
About 20 years ago, Shelly Matter was a single mother of three school-age children and was having difficulty making ends meet. She looked around for jobs with more earning power and stability when she hit upon a career in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry, or HVAC.
She hasn’t looked back.
“I saw stability long term in an industry where there was career development,” says Matter, who is director of business development for HB McClure, a HVAC company based in York County. Her job involves expanding the territory for the company on the commercial side, while also getting involved with training and development of HB McClure’s workers, among other duties.
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A York County-based drywall company misclassified workers to subvert employment requirements and protections, authorities said. (Shutterstock)
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA The owners of a construction company that did business in Delaware County are facing labor-related charges, authorities said Monday.
District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer and Attorney General Josh Shapiro said the charges were filed against owners and workers of G&R Drywall and Framing, LLC.
Authorities charged Garcia- Ramirez, his wife and business partner Martha Guzman, their daughter and employee Stephanie Garcia-Ramirez, and employee Angelita Paulin-Santos have been charged with multiple counts of workplace misclassification, making false statements, theft, receiving stolen property, deceptive business practices, and related charges in connection with their roles in the conspiracy to operate G&R.