The Full City Challenge, by Billy Penn and the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, aims to help community groups use food to strengthen communities by pairing them with money and expert assistance. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)
Latinos make up nearly 15 percent of Philadelphia’s population and form its poorest minority group — 38 percent live in poverty, according to census data. But step inside a city homeless shelter and there are few Latinos. Nationally, and in Philadelphia, they represent a small fraction of people in shelters. | From: Philadelphia Media Network (Read more.)
Local food banks are preparing for a rush of people in need due to the government shutdown. But the strain is taking a toll on SNAP, the area’s largest hunger relief organization. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)
The Full City Challenge, by Billy Penn and the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, aims to help community groups use food to strengthen communities by pairing them with money and expert assistance. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)
Local food banks are preparing for a rush of people in need due to the government shutdown. But the strain is taking a toll on SNAP, the area’s largest hunger relief organization. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: The problem has been most severe, researchers found, in the Philadelphia metro division, where nearly 75 percent of low- or moderate-income homeowners who sought home improvement loans were denied between 2015 and 2017. (Read more.)
The First Judicial District has amended their procedures to authorize the return of the entire amount of posted bail in cases when defendants meet other conditions and appear as required until the final disposition of the case. (Read more.)
Latinos make up nearly 15 percent of Philadelphia’s population and form its poorest minority group — 38 percent live in poverty, according to census data. But step inside a city homeless shelter and there are few Latinos. Nationally, and in Philadelphia, they represent a small fraction of people in shelters. | From: Philadelphia Media Network (Read more.)
At least for some Pennsylvanians, like ND, who served time in the ’90s for misdemeanors: “My record should be clean just like me.” | From Generocity (Read more.)
From Generocity: “As Hispanic people,” said President and CEO Rev. Luis Cortés, “we need to build institutions that we control.” Here’s the ethos behind the North Philadelphia nonprofit’s long-term community engagement strategy. (Read more.)
From Plan Philly: In December, Minneapolis confronted a growing affordability crisis and longstanding patterns of racial segregation with a City Council vote in favor of a plan to eliminate single-family zoning, a classification that dominates in Philadelphia. (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: The problem has been most severe, researchers found, in the Philadelphia metro division, where nearly 75 percent of low- or moderate-income homeowners who sought home improvement loans were denied between 2015 and 2017. (Read more.)
From Billy Penn | A present is much more expensive if you have to pay interest. (Read more.)
From The Philadelphia Tribune: U.S. Census Bureau figures for 2017 released last week show nearly one in five children in America still lives in poverty, making them the poorest age group in our country. Almost one-third of the 39.7 million poor people in the United States are children. (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: Throughout many Philadelphia neighborhoods, cars are the most common commuting choice, but that is particularly the case in some of Philadelphia’s lower-income neighborhoods, like Tioga and Nicetown. (Read more.)
From Generocity: Only 71.6 percent of households in the city had broadband in 2017, compared to 83.5 percent nationally. On the bright side, smartphone users in Center City can now use five of an eventual 100 kiosks to access the internet. (Read more.)
Reporters working on Broke in Philly stories will ask the people we are reporting on how they describe themselves, or how they would like to be described in the article or broadcast. (Read more.)
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