More than 50 stagehands and live event workers pushed the tools of their trade – wheeled roadie boxes – around Philadelphia City Hall Friday as part of their demand for more government support while their industry is shut down due to the pandemic. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
In May, Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration opened applications for the state’s LIHEAP Recovery Crisis Program. With a little more than a month left to apply to the crisis funds, PECO is continuing to provide customers with information about the state’s LIHEAP Recovery Crisis Program and other PECO assistance programs. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
Buses stranded passengers, trains stopped coming, and planes flew empty. The burden of commuting in the midst of a pandemic weighed heavily on essential workers as the world halted to a pause. Let’s dive a little deeper to review what were the environmental and personal impacts of these shifts. | From: Green Philly (Read more.)
Mientras que los trabajadores esenciales continúan valientemente yendo a trabajar en medio de la creciente pandemia de coronavirus, Pensilvania está ofreciendo una forma de compensar a sus empleadores por el esfuerzo. | Para: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Philadelphia will open a limited number of cooling centers as scorching temperatures combine with high humidity to make for potentially deadly conditions as a brutal heat wave sets in. The cooling center sites will be different than in past years and will have social distancing and mask standards in place as they open amid the coronavirus pandemic. | From: NBC10 Philadelphia/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
The $600-a-week federal unemployment benefits boost is set to end on July 25 for workers in Pennsylvania, and so far no tangible replacements have been approved. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Philadelphia officials have postponed the eviction of the homelessness protest encampment on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The city had given the roughly 150 residents of the camp until 9 a.m. Friday to leave, after weeks of negotiations broke down and pressure from neighborhood residents and sports leagues pushed officials to act. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The nationwide day of action, part of the broader Black Lives Matter uprisings sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, took place in more than two dozen cities nationwide. It aimed to link the Black Lives Matter struggle to the fight for workers’ rights, and call attention to the racial discrimination that Black workers face on the job, which workers say has only worsened during the current health crisis. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
While the City and advocates continue negotiations over the homeless encampment on the Parkway, Denver and New Jersey demonstrate some much-needed new thinking. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Rebuild the Block originally began as a Go Fund Me page, which has raised more than $194,000 since May 31. It has quickly grown and was officially deemed a nonprofit on June 12. The organization has since helped businesses in the Philadelphia area, as well as Georgia, Illinois and Maryland, among others. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
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