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.)
With the start of the school year just weeks away, city officials on Thursday announced a plan to provide free internet access for 35,000 low-income families that currently lack it. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Nelson is the founder of Mama-Tee, an e-commerce store and apparel brand that recently launched the Community Fridge Project. Designed to provide food for those in need, the project features refrigerators, painted in a signature, bright-banana-colored yellow, set up outdoors for anyone to access. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (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.)
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.)
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.)
The recent boost in funding is impactful, yes, but without systemic change, it’s not enough. Because Black-led, Black-serving nonprofits have long faced unjust barriers to accessing to funding. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
According to Kerri Hartnett, Prevention Point Philadelphia’s drop-in coordinator, starting in March, she began hearing of people being scammed out of unemployment money and stimulus checks in Kensington. For many experiencing homelessness, it’s difficult to secure these needed benefits. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
In July, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he’d launch a $50 million hazard pay program, backed by federal coronavirus stimulus money, for workers making under $20 an hour in healthcare, food service and other industries. But some Pennsylvania employers turned down the opportunity to vie for the funds, enraging their workers and showing the difficulties of administering such a program. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
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