More than a whopping half a million Pennsylvanians have filed new unemployment claims during the last week, according to a state senator briefed by the Department of Labor and Industry. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Employers are laying off thousands of workers or reducing hours across the region with breathtaking speed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The hardest burden, experts say, is falling on lower-income hourly workers with scarce household savings and threadbare safety nets. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Unhoused residents are more vulnerable than ever, and outreach workers are doubling down their efforts to ensure their health and safety under the new CDC restrictions. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
According to Mike Dunn, the city’s senior deputy communications director, the city is developing plans for housing should separating people who are sick and experiencing homelessness become necessary. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
Organizations such as Project HOME and Covenant House Pennsylvania, which provide thousands of Philadelphians with temporary housing, food and health care, have been forced to adjust their outreach efforts. | From: NBC10 Philadelphia (Read more.)
Piseitta Arrington set up a temporary food pantry in Northeast Philadelphia to help those facing unemployment during the Coronavirus pandemic. (Read more.)
The city is offering emergency grants and up to $100k in zero-interest loans. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Philadelphia officials plan to soon open a quarantine facility for people who cannot sequester themselves at home. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The shutdown of all Philadelphia government services deemed nonessential during the pandemic is worrying child and parent advocates, who see hundreds of foster youth potentially paying a price. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Philadelphia officials are revising their plans to distribute meals to children who are out of school during the coronavirus outbreak. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
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