From Philadelphia Media Network: The Free Library system is the largest provider of free public Wi-Fi in the region, and with internet access as well as public computers available at every Free Library location with a library card, a world of possibility is opened as users can open email accounts, search for jobs, connect with family members via social media, conduct research, and much more. (Read more.)
From Technical.ly: Backed by a $150,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, a six-week training program at makerspace NextFab could offer one pathway: teaching people how to control a robotic armed used in advanced manufacturing. (Read more.)
An examination of Free Library of Philadelphia branch operating hours showed that neighborhood branches in communities with high poverty rates often close earlier and more often than those in areas with low poverty rates. (Read more.)
Please join Broke in Philly and partner Billy Penn, for a FREE After School Activities Fair Saturday in Southwest Philly. (Read more.)
On today’s show we have Justin Ennis who is the Executive Director, ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships. He joins Wake Up With WURD to talk about after school programs in Philadelphia and also to talk about an after school program fair that will be happening Sept. 22 (Read more.)
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. (Read more.)
• BREAKING POVERTY: Bad breaks early in life often weave an inescapable web for the poor | From: The Philadelphia Tribune
• Education is the answer to many of life’s challenges | From: The Philadelphia Tribune
• Quality education can reduce poverty | From: The Philadelphia Tribune
• Sheriffs target ‘deadbeat dads’ with midnight raids, debtor’s prison. But does it help the kids? | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Democratizing Food | From: The Philadelphia Citizen
• Around the country, incomes are rising. In Philly, they’re falling | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Philly antipoverty office: Lack of clout, vision, and leadership | From: Philadelphia Media Network
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. (Read more.)
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. (Read more.)
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 (Read more.)
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