Homeless service providers and advocates are contemplating suing the City of Philadelphia to prevent it from moving homeless people living at Philadelphia International Airport into shelters on Friday without first testing them for the coronavirus. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Two Pennsylvania congresspeople have introduced the Giving Retailers and Our Convenience Employees Relief Act, or GROCER Act. The bill would establish a four-month federal tax holiday for grocery and convenience store workers who make less than $75,000 annually. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
After voting to strike during the coronavirus pandemic, when they were needed the most, nursing home workers at South Philadelphia’s St. Monica’s emerged with a contract that union leaders say is “night and day” compared to their previous contracts. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Through Proyecto Tamal, Caballero helps a different out-of-work cook every Friday to whip up around 400 tamales in a kitchen at Craft Hall. The tamales are then sold through Proyecto Tamal’s website the following Sunday, and all proceeds go to that week’s cook and their family. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
The Housing Trust Fund serves the Philadelphia residents who are already being hit hardest by Covid-19—people with disabilities and families of color with the lowest incomes in our city. If City Council doesn’t stop these budget cuts to the Housing Trust Fund, more people will die. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Uno de los programas que se están recortando junto con toda la Oficina de Artes, Cultura y Economía Creativa es el Fondo Cultural de Filadelfia, que repartió aproximadamente 3 millones de dólares en fondos para un récord de 349 organizaciones en 2019. El perdido de estos fondos va a poner varias organiziaciones en lugar difícil. | Por: AL DÍA (Read more.)
One of the programs being cut along with the entire Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy is the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, which dished approximately $3 million in funding to a record 349 organizations in 2019. The cut in funding puts many arts organizations in a hard place. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
CVS has added more free COVID test sites in Pennsylvania. Rite Aid also expanded testing as well, covering parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
As states consider reopening, many parents are left wondering whether their children will have ways to socialize and if camps will be an available form of child care. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
A partnership between Center City District and Philly’s Mural Arts Program — which despite concerns over looming budget cuts to arts funding and the city’s arts office — is finding ways to get artists work, and to get them paid. Twenty eight pieces have been installed in Center City so far. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
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