Since February 2020, the U.S. labor force has shrunk by about three million people. Women 20 and older comprised 55% of that total decline, despite the fact that they make up only about 45% of the workforce. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
After a year-plus of pandemic-disrupted learning, persistent bus woes have kept some students out of school completely and left parents and school staff scrambling yet again. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Philadelphia Register of Wills Tracey Gordon is calling on the city and state to do more to help residents struggling to get legal ownership of homes and says that solving the city’s quiet tangled title crisis would help quell a louder calamity: gun violence. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
With losses that ranged from precious photographs and family keepsakes to vehicles and whole houses, lives were upended in so many ways last week when the remnants of Hurricane Ida leveled parts of this region with severe winds and submerged other parts with historic flooding. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
After 18 months where virtual learning was the norm for most students in the city, the School District of Philadelphia welcomed children back to in-person school last week, in some cases, to heaps of overflowing schoolyard garbage. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage will distribute $10.2 million in arts grants over the next fiscal year. Thirty organizations in the Philadelphia region will receive grants ranging from $120,000 to $480,000, much of it targeted for pandemic relief, as well as strengthening internal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
“Over the course of last year, we saw months that showed the biggest spikes in food insecurity in the last 50 years in this country.” | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Amid a surging wave of coronavirus cases, the federal government allowed enhanced pandemic unemployment insurance to expire this past weekend, cutting off thousands of jobless Philadelphians and millions of their fellow Americans from their only source of financial support. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
Only one in three restaurants who applied received grants, leaving 177,000 business owners with pending applications, according to the National Restaurant Association. PRLA said more than 6,400 businesses in Pennsylvania seeking $1.5 billion were left unfunded. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
Recess improves students’ mental health. But green schoolyards, says the state director of the Trust For Public Lands, can help even more. | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
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