City budgets are getting wrecked by the pandemic. One of the areas that’s come in focus for Philly is the wage tax. If you’re stuck wondering what that even means, we gotcha. Here’s a quick (Read more.)
“When it comes to the no-layoff clause, there is no compromise for us,” Local 234 President Willie Brown said. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The answer was the City’s first experiment in unrestricted cash assistance, the $1.7 million Worker Relief Fund, which gave $800 last summer to 2,162 Philadelphians left out of federal and state pandemic relief programs, most (Read more.)
“Unfortunately, the availability of new federal unemployment money is causing a surge in fraud attempts,” acting Labor and Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier said in a statement.
The Save Your Biz Philly initiative, which was one of six U.S. winners of the TD Bank challenge, aims to provide technical assistance, financial counseling, outreach, and pro bono legal representation to businesses gutted by the pandemic. PACDC will work with the Philadelphia Department of Commerce, LISC Philadelphia, and community organizations to connect interested business owners with experts in the field. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Online fraudsters tried to scam jobless workers using a fake Facebook page that closely resembled the one used by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, except for one important detail. The scammers misspelled the word “labor.” | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
When asked whether they expect that anyone in the household will experience a loss of employment income in the next 4 weeks, more than a quarter of Philadelphians answered yes. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
A group of more than 200 organization are advocating for Biden to use executive power to cancel student debt entirely, which they say could pull entire communities out of the cycle of intergenerational debt and chip away at the racial wealth gap. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
For Philadelphia, a city of neighborhood business corridors — over 100 of them — this prediction of demise is dire. A 2019 report from the Small Business Administration, showed that small businesses created 2/3rd of the jobs and 44 percent of the U.S. economic activity. Now the government will have to pump resources into them to keep them alive. But exactly what help is needed is the dilemma. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
Misinformation and language barriers prevent many in Chinatown from applying for unemployment compensation or rental assistance. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
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