August 2018 – Page 3 – Broke in Philly

This Week at Broke in Philly: 08.10.18

August 10, 2018

• Broke in Philly launches #HighCost of Being Broke series
• The high cost of being broke: Diapers | From: WHYY
• Financial empowerment centers help city residents improve their fiscal health | From: Next City
• The high cost of being broke: Dental care | From: WHYY
• High cost of being broke: Cell phones are crazy expensive | From: Billy Penn
• The high cost of being broke: Transportation | From: WHYY
• The high cost of being broke: Fighting ‘quiet hunger’ in every Philadelphia zip code | From: NBC10/Telemundo62
• How to find low-cost bank accounts in Philly | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Broke in Philly: Residents struggle to afford the rising cost of food | From: NBC10/Telemundo62
• Power Moves: Cassie Haynes left city government to co-lead Resolve Philadelphia | From: Generocity (Read more.)

Broke in Philly: Financial struggles for 1st generation college students

August 10, 2018

From NBC10/Telemundo62: CCP has a program called Single Stop that helps students secure housing, health insurance, food stamps and get legal advice. (Read more.)

Home visits from education experts are improving outcomes for Philly kids in poverty

August 9, 2018

From Generocity: On a home visit, a service provider visits an expecting mother or a parent and young child in their home to discuss maternal health, early childhood development and parent coaching. According to a report by the National Home Visiting Resource Center, these programs can improve infant health, parent-child relationships and early childhood education. (Read more.)

The high cost of being broke: Dental care

August 9, 2018

From WHYY: Approximately 72 million Americans rely on Medicaid and CHIP for dental coverage, yet two-thirds of dentists do not accept either kind of coverage, according to the Pew Dental Campaign. (Read more.)

‘A perfect circle of helping’: 3 nonprofits join forces to feed people in Kensington

August 9, 2018

From Billy Penn: In Philly’s Kensington section this summer, the convergence of three nonprofits has amounted to 500 free lunches that otherwise would have never existed. (Read more.)

Broke in Philly: From homeless to business owner

August 8, 2018

From NBC10/Telemundo62: A Philadelphia woman who endured homelessness her entire life experienced a huge turn around two years ago– she now owns her own business. (Read more.)

Broke in Philly: Residents struggle to afford the rising cost of food

August 6, 2018

From NBC10/Telemundo62: One problem that’s a bigger issue in Philadelphia than the rest of the country is food insecurity. That means a person or family can’t always afford the food they need. (Read more.)

Financial empowerment centers help city residents improve their fiscal health

August 6, 2018

From Next City: In a typical year, between 40 and 60 families take advantage of the PHA’s homeownership program, according to online records from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. But that’s a tiny percentage of the PHA’s 13,000 families in public housing and 18,600 families with Section 8 vouchers — not to mention the tens of thousands of people languishing on waiting lists for public housing or Section 8 vouchers. (Read more.)

The high cost of being broke: Fighting ‘quiet hunger’ in every Philadelphia zip code

August 6, 2018

From NBC10/Telemundo62: Food insecurity plagues more than 20 percent of people in Philadelphia and more than 1.6 million people across Pennsylvania, according to a 2017 report by Feeding America. The hardest-hit local neighborhoods include West Philly, Southwest Philly, North Philly and portions of the Northeast, where the food insecurity rate is more than 30 percent, according to the report. (Read more.)

How to find low-cost bank accounts in Philly

August 6, 2018

From Philadelphia Media Network: These bankless consumers not only incur high transaction costs to cash checks and pay bills through third parties, but they also miss out on future opportunities for traditional loans by not establishing a financial history, experts and advocates say. (Read more.)