Its goal is to use training, financial aid, and networking to help cleaning company owners of color across the state weather the pandemic and compete for contracts from government agencies and other large anchor institutions — contracts that historically have gone largely to white-owned companies. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Its goal is to use training, financial aid, and networking to help cleaning company owners of color across the state weather the pandemic and compete for contracts from government agencies and other large anchor institutions — contracts that historically have gone largely to white-owned companies. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The program, funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, offers families grief counseling, helps to make funeral arrangements, and even provides assistance getting utilities turned back on. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The program, funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, offers families grief counseling, helps to make funeral arrangements, and even provides assistance getting utilities turned back on. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Among the changes in the works for the program funded by Congress as part of a $900 billion COVID relief package passed in December, are new income requirements and a three-month standard term for aid. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
When you sign up, you’ll get an alert as soon as your “phase” is eligible for inoculation. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
A new financial wellness program at CHOP has helped families recoup $700,000 owed to them in an effort to tackle a critical vital sign: poverty. | From: Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
The federal incentive allows investors to skip out on capital gains tax in exchange for making long-term investments in businesses or developments in certain low-income areas | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Among the changes in the works for the program funded by Congress as part of a $900 billion COVID relief package passed in December, are new income requirements and a three-month standard term for aid. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
In remediating a defunct refinery, a developer promises a first-of-its-kind partnership that opens a pathway into skilled professions for Philadelphia public school students. | From: Next City (Read more.)
The deal was simple: Property mogul Chris Rahn got to buy a bundle of 22 vacant, publicly owned lots on the cheap. In exchange, records show he was expected to build homes for the financially needy on eight of them. Five years on, most of those 22 lots — including one of the parcels where he’d agreed to build affordable housing — have been developed into apartments pulling in big rent checks. That’s because the officials who arranged the sale let him shirk his end of the bargain. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
The quarantine space (for people who’ve already tested positive) is still operating, as opposed to the recently closed prevention space for people at risk. But the funding used to pay for it is not flexible, said city spokesperson Mike Dunn. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
A private prison company runs one of the temporary sites where residents are being relocated. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Paul Levy, president and CEO of the Center City District, said the campaign is designed to preserve restaurants in town, which make up about a third of the district’s business members and which are working hard to survive at a difficult time. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
SEPTA transit union TWU Local 234 says the authority is endangering riders and its workforce with a policy that disincentivizes workers from staying home to quarantine more than two times. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
SEPTA riders likely won’t see the cost of their rides on city transit or Regional Rail increase until at least July of 2021. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
El sueño de Raúl Castro era abrir un restaurante, donde la gente pudiera probar la auténtica cocina mexicana. Pero desde que la pandemia del coronavirus llegó a Filadelfia, su sueño se está convirtiendo en una pesadilla. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
We asked over 40 Playstreet supervisors what they wished the city of Philadelphia knew about their blocks. The result? This letter to Managing Director Tumar Alexander, and a hope for continued improvements. | From: Resolve Philly (Read more.)
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