Horton, board chairperson for Disability Pride PA, said shooting statistics don’t capture the physical and mental toll it can have on a person.
Disability Pride Philadelphia is looking to change that by asking people affected by gun violence to flood Instagram and Facebook with their personal stories. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Philadelphia’s 12th medical marijuana dispensary opened this week, a milestone that comes two years after the first store opened in Fishtown in 2018.
The latest addition is Sunnyside, the retail end of Chicago-based Cresco Labs, with a 5,500-square-foot dispensary at 12th and Chestnut. While local advocates for marijuana access say more dispensaries are good, they also point to a growing disparity. | From Billy Penn (Read more.)
It’s the latest in a decadelong push by unions, and later backed by city officials, to lift compensation for laborers at the travel hub. The lowest-paid workers were already set to get to a $15-an-hour wage by July 2022 because of earlier legislation, but the health care subsidy is new.
“This legislation is about economic justice, but also, as we all have seen during the pandemic, the health disparities that exist,” said City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson, who is the lead sponsor and whose district includes the airport. | From WHYY (Read more.)
Is a vaccine collaboration between Penn and West Philly faith leaders a roadmap to more equitable healthcare? | From The Citizen (Read more.)
The City of Philadelphia, along with the School District of Philadelphia and Nutritional Development Services, announced Thursday it will be supporting more than 500 child and youth meal sites this summer. The joint partnership is an effort to make sure children have access to free, healthy food. | From WHYY (Read more.)
Poverty and trauma take more than mental tolls on children. Childhood adversity affects kids’ physical development too, and new research suggests it leaves its mark in an unexpected place: teeth. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Vaccination rates are rising among people incarcerated in Pennsylvania prisons, and case rates are falling. But a number of the system’s COVID-19 prevention measures are still in place, and prisoner advocates and family members say they seem to be outlasting their usefulness. | From WHYY (Read more.)
Philadelphia City Councilmembers announced what they described as a “historic” anti-violence funding deal, ahead of a final budget deal with Mayor Jim Kenney — a spending package that also appears to include restored funding for parks and libraries. | From WHYY (Read more.)
On June 5, 1981, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Center for Disease Control shared that five otherwise healthy gay cisgender men had been diagnosed with pneumocystis pneumonia—a rare pneumonia that typically shows up in people with suppressed or compromised immunity—and two had died. Then on July 3 of that year, the New York Times reported that 41 cisgender gay men had been diagnosed with a rare cancer, Kaposi’s Sarcoma. This was when it hit the fan for LGBTQ communities, Black and Latinx communities, injection drug users, and people with blood disorders who require transfusion. | From The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Philadelphia residents are more concerned about public safety than they have been in a decade. In a summer 2020 survey for The Pew Charitable Trusts, respondents listed “public safety” as the city’s top issue, with a little less than half of the 1,025 city residents surveyed saying they felt safe outside at night — at 49% this is the lowest figure Pew has recorded in over 10 years of polling. | From Kensington Voice (Read more.)
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