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. […]
From The Philadelphia Tribune: City officials are working with business leaders to establish or expand industry partnerships in seven opportunity industries identified by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, including health care, retail and hospitality, early childhood education, technology services, business and financial services, construction and infrastructure, and manufacturing and logistics. […]
From The Philadelphia Citizen: When it comes to poverty, Philly remains in last place. So why does the Mayor sound like he’s satisfied? […]
Kait Bowdler, Deputy Director of Sustainability at Philadbundance, talks about their line of Abundantly Good cheese in which every purchase rescues food, funds local farms, and helps feed those in need. […]
From The Philadelphia Citizen: After more than 30 years in operation, Philabundance is now launching something new, something that is the source of Retamar and Bowdler’s snacking habit: Abundantly Good, a retail line of cheeses, the proceeds of which are used to turn surplus milk, which would otherwise go to waste, into cheese for the people facing food insecurity. […]
Low-income people who live in mobile homes in the Honey Brook area have been getting extra help that could allow them to stop overpaying property taxes. […]
From Philly Weekly: The bail fee is just one small part of a larger financial scheme that generates revenue from the pockets of people caught up in the criminal justice system. […]
From The Philadelphia Citizen: When it comes to poverty, Philly remains in last place. So why does the Mayor sound like he’s satisfied? […]
From The Philadelphia Tribune: Three of the poorest ZIP codes in the city — 19132 (North Philadelphia-West), 19134 (Port Richmond) and 19140 (Germantown, Nicetown and North Philadelphia-West) — are responsible for almost a third of the city’s homicides since January 2013. […]
From Philadelphia Media Network: In 2013, Mayor Michael Nutter rebranded Philadelphia’s community services office and charged it with nothing less than the slashing of poverty in the poorest big city in the United States. Five years on, the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity has spent $65 million with few measurable accomplishments. […]
From Philadelphia Media Network: Two reports from the U.S. Census Bureau released Wednesday and Thursday show that as poverty has declined and income has increased nationwide, Philadelphia’s poverty rate remained stuck at 25.7 percent in 2017, the same as in 2016, and close to 2015’s level of 25.8 percent. […]
From The Philadelphia Citizen: For the last decade, Common Market has spread affordable access to locally-sourced nutrient-dense food to the city’s neediest. Now its mission is spreading nationwide […]
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. […]
From Billy Penn: Now that she represents Pennsylvania’s 116th legislative district, Rep. Toohil (R-Luzerne County) is working to make foster care a little more affordable and attractive. […]
For this inaugural house, How partnered with Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia, part of the international nonprofit that builds affordable housing, to select a family. […]
Given the short timeline between the construction of the Hub of Hope and then the turnstiles, it puts into question if SEPTA’s investment in the service station was in an effort to save face for the negative ramifications the turnstiles may have on the city’s homeless community. […]
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