From The Philadelphia Public School Notebook: In North Philadelphia, Urban Creators — a nonprofit food justice advocacy organization — operates Life Do Grow farm at Dakota and 11th Streets. (Read more.)
From The Philadelphia Public School Notebook: The Kensington academy is also one of several schools where members of the school community identified healthy cooking and eating as a priority. (Read more.)
• Philadelphia hopes to become next major city to pass fair workweek legislation | From: NBC10/Telemundo62
• This Philly housing project helps residents double their income | From: Billy Penn
• Rep. Heffley accused of sneaking payday lending bill through committee | From: City & State PA
• Introducing: We’re Listening! | From: Broke in Philly
• In Chesco, volunteer payday lending grow food for neighbors in need | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Broke in Philly editor joins community conversation | From: Broke in Philly
• Dozens of journalists attend solutions journalism training (Read more.)
From Next City: Around 130,000 hourly workers in the city would benefit from the fair work week protections, according to the bill’s sponsor, Councilmember Helen Gym. (Read more.)
From The Philadelphia Public School Notebook: In Philadelphia, the District’s food services division is running promotions and encouraging principals to use multiple methods to deliver breakfast to more students. (Read more.)
From Broke in Philly: Today, we’re announcing two new features on our site: The ear icon [??] and “We’re Listening” category. All stories that originated with a question, idea or tip from our audience will be tagged and identifiable so that you can make sure we keep up this part of our project. (Read more.)
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky joined #WitnessesChat, a monthly conversation hosted by Witnesses to Hunger, a research and advocacy group comprised of mothers and caregivers of young children who have experienced hunger and poverty, to talk about improving reporting on poverty. (Read more.)
From NBC10/Telemundo62: The fair workweek ordinance would require a reasonable notice of schedules, at least 11 hours rest time between shifts, opportunities to work additional hours and provide for enforcement and penalties if an employer does not comply. (Read more.)
State Rep. Doyle Heffley says House Bill 2429 is not a payday lending bill – if it were, it would be at least the sixth time in as many years that usury groups had lobbied to erode Pennsylvania’s protections against predatory loans. From: City & State PA (Read more.)
From Billy Penn: The Women’s Community Revitalization Project offers 282 units and a slew of community services.
We learned about this story thanks to a reader like you. We’re listening. ?? (Read more.)
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