Mediante un tuit, el Departamento del Trabajo de Pensilvania informó que aquellos que certificaron su Seguro de desempleo federal (PUA) de $300 en marzo 21 y 22 verán sus pagos retrasados entre dos a tres días. | From: Telemundo 62 (Read more.)
Un nuevo estudio reveló que millones de indocumentados, beneficiarios de TPS y DACA recibirán la tercera ronda de estímulo que incluye pagos de hasta $1,400. Y es que según un nuevo estudio del Centro de Estudios sobre Migración (CIS), alrededor de 2,646,258 indocumentados califican para recibir los cheques aprobados a principios de marzo. | From: Telemundo 62 (Read more.)
This growth in cell and gene therapy, coupled with the continued need for novel healthcare technologies (especially amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic), is what propelled Thomas Jefferson University to start planning the expansion of its Montgomery County-based education and training center, the Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing (JIB). | From: Philly Mag (Read more.)
SEPTA’s temporary closure of the Market-Frankford Line’s Somerset Station is not a solution to the poverty and substance use problem that is impacting the station — and our city. The closure is instead another step toward a displacement of some of our most vulnerable citizens — another divestment in a community already depleted by capital flight. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The dysfunction at Somerset Station reflects problems visible across the SEPTA system — and the city. The closure speaks to a surging crisis of drugs, violence, and homelessness that has burdened residents of Kensington for years and is now unavoidable for the transit agency depended on by the community. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The next phase of Philadelphia’s rental assistance program is on track to launch by the end of March. City officials expect the tenant aid program to kick up right as Philadelphia courts lift a hold on evictions for nonpayment that has been in effect since the pandemic began last year. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
One important policy for ensuring housing stability is the maintenance of revenue streams that were established to capture the value of new development in desirable neighborhoods, a policy highlighted in the Mayor’s Housing Action Plan. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
He is one of the 30 businesses that had to shutter its doors on the corridor out of roughly 180. Like many on the commercial corridor northwest of University City, Smith hopes that he will rebound — and he is relying on his neighbors after other systems have failed him. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Station users and SEPTA workers have become increasingly vocal about safety concerns at the station, citing drug use happening there and the growing community of people who are experiencing homelessness and using it as a sheltering place.
But those issues are not isolated to Somerset, and the station’s users shouldn’t have to bear the cost, Kensington residents protesting the closure said. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
SEPTA officials are working out a contract with a firm to bring 60 security guards to the Market Frankford Line.
The unarmed guards would be stationed between 15th Street Station and Frankford Transportation Center and would be a temporary measure to supplement the 186 SEPTA police officers tasked with covering the sprawling city transit system. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
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