The district will utilize window fans as the main component at those schools to ventilate the air in classrooms, and Superintendent William Hite Jr. on Thursday defended the reopening. He cited federal guidelines that approve of the air flow provided by those fans and promised daily monitoring in every classroom. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
The Save Your Biz Philly initiative, which was one of six U.S. winners of the TD Bank challenge, aims to provide technical assistance, financial counseling, outreach, and pro bono legal representation to businesses gutted by the pandemic. PACDC will work with the Philadelphia Department of Commerce, LISC Philadelphia, and community organizations to connect interested business owners with experts in the field. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
It’s a problem most school systems simply don’t have: If rooms lack inadequate ventilation, they fix the issue. In cash-strapped Philadelphia, some buildings are more than 100 years old and decades of delayed maintenance means that’s not always possible. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Online fraudsters tried to scam jobless workers using a fake Facebook page that closely resembled the one used by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, except for one important detail. The scammers misspelled the word “labor.” | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Philadelphia residents aged 75 and older will be able to make COVID-19 vaccine appointments at two additional pharmacy chains starting later this week, health officials announced Tuesday, with information sent out to people who signed up at the city’s registry. Meanwhile, the city Department of Public Health is taking over the Pennsylvania Convention Center mass vaccination clinic, where staff will administer second doses for the roughly 6,000 people who received their first doses from Philly Fighting COVID — the start-up whose relationship with the city imploded last week. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
When asked whether they expect that anyone in the household will experience a loss of employment income in the next 4 weeks, more than a quarter of Philadelphians answered yes. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
A group of more than 200 organization are advocating for Biden to use executive power to cancel student debt entirely, which they say could pull entire communities out of the cycle of intergenerational debt and chip away at the racial wealth gap. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
For Philadelphia, a city of neighborhood business corridors — over 100 of them — this prediction of demise is dire. A 2019 report from the Small Business Administration, showed that small businesses created 2/3rd of the jobs and 44 percent of the U.S. economic activity. Now the government will have to pump resources into them to keep them alive. But exactly what help is needed is the dilemma. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
We know that nothing can make up for that. But we also believe that keeping those final thoughts and sentiments bottled up can be an additional hardship. So we are offering anyone who couldn’t have that in-person goodbye a chance to share what you would have said if you’d had been able to be by their side. We call this effort: With Love: Messages to those lost to COVID. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
“We are offering anyone who couldn’t have that in-person goodbye a chance to share what you would have said if you’d had been able to be by their side,” says guest columnist Gene Sonn, referring to a project he’s spearheading for Resolve Philadelphia. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
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