In light of COVID-19, FunTimes celebrates the education sector by speaking to educators in the Philadelphia region to learn how they have reconciled with schooling during COVID-19. We learn from Eric Snipe, a teacher at Luis Munoz-Marin Elementary School, about his journey adapting to COVID as a middle school educator. | From: Fun Times (Read more.)
The coronavirus created mayhem for all kinds of people, but it hit the restaurant industry especially hard. Here are some of their stories. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
The hour-long webinar featured what all Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians need to know about the resources available to keep them in their homes. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
A deadlocked Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday rejected Peco’s proposal to provide temporary COVID-19 relief for low-income customers, including a onetime $50 bill credit for 113,000 households. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
With Congress negotiating another federal relief bill, it’s worth taking a moment to look at where the first 4.9 million loans went. | From: Technical.ly (Read more.)
Experts from the University of Pennsylvania, Congreso and DVRPC talked about how air quality amplifies inequalities found in Philadelphia’s underrepresented communities. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
A new map from District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office puts the relationship between income inequality and gun violence in the city on stark display. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Philadelphia is now taking notes from New York’s experiment in mutual aid as several fridges have been set up to provide nutrition for the community. They all share the same objectives: to reduce waste, to make fresh and healthy food more accessible, and to create a more equitable city. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
For many business owners surveying the damage Wednesday, the storm Isaias was simply the latest in a string of events to have rocked their enterprise: first the pandemic, then the property damage following the killing of George Floyd, and now this. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Outreach workers, who were already canvassing around the clock in intense summer heat, received another in a long series of blows this week when the U.S. Census Bureau announced it would end all counting efforts by Sept. 30. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
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