Black parents, especially, favor more school options for their children. The head of Philly’s Children’s Scholarship Fund lays out one way to help increase their choice. | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
The amount of trash Philadelphia sanitation workers are charged with picking up on a daily basis surged during the pandemic, but even as COVID-19 has abated, delayed waste collections, recycling snafus, and other problems remained chronic across the city. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Housing activists from the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign are suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Philadelphia Housing Authority for trying to remove families from abandoned Philadelphia properties. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
As of June 7, roughly 3.2 million people in the U.S. said they face eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
A new pilot program replaces benches with “leaners” at two SEPTA transportation hubs. But some riders are unhappy with the change, including the elderly, disabled and those with kids too short to reach the rails. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Horton, board chairperson for Disability Pride PA, said shooting statistics don’t capture the physical and mental toll it can have on a person.
Disability Pride Philadelphia is looking to change that by asking people affected by gun violence to flood Instagram and Facebook with their personal stories. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
In the months since George Floyd’s murder, American businesses have fallen over themselves to declare that Black lives matter. Now, at least 10 new venture funds offering over $350 million in socially-good investment are actually doing something to make a fairer Philly. | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
SEPTA plans to host a virtual career fair for women this weekend. The Women Building SEPTA Virtual Trades and Technical Career Fair is geared toward women who are currently working in skilled trades, but welcomes those interested in starting their careers at the authority. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Philadelphia’s 12th medical marijuana dispensary opened this week, a milestone that comes two years after the first store opened in Fishtown in 2018.
The latest addition is Sunnyside, the retail end of Chicago-based Cresco Labs, with a 5,500-square-foot dispensary at 12th and Chestnut. While local advocates for marijuana access say more dispensaries are good, they also point to a growing disparity. | From Billy Penn (Read more.)
It’s the latest in a decadelong push by unions, and later backed by city officials, to lift compensation for laborers at the travel hub. The lowest-paid workers were already set to get to a $15-an-hour wage by July 2022 because of earlier legislation, but the health care subsidy is new.
“This legislation is about economic justice, but also, as we all have seen during the pandemic, the health disparities that exist,” said City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson, who is the lead sponsor and whose district includes the airport. | From WHYY (Read more.)
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