This is a guide for ways people can combat homelessness in Philadelphia like donating everyday essentials, volunteering, and holding legislators accountable. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Dr. Aaron Smith visits the New Covenant Church for the Poor People’s Campaign Hearings which aims to amplify the voices of people trying to break out of poverty. | From: WURD (Read more.)
Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko, co-founder of Put People First! PA, discusses the Poor People’s Hearing where people impacted by mass incarceration, gentrification, and the closure of Hahnemann Hospital will give testimonies. | From: WURD (Read more.)
The two-hour event in Mt. Airy will center on testimony from residents who have personally struggled with poverty. The hearing will also address the closures of Hahnemann University Hospital and the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
As questionable labor conditions turn into workers’ rights violations, LAZ Parking tries to prevent the Union from getting involved in Philadelphia. | From: Al Día News (Read more.)
The city’s Shared Public Spaces program was so successful, stakeholders are expanding its reach. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
The U.S. Census is conducted every 10 years and counts the total population of people living in the country. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)
In Canada, communities lifted more than 200,000 families out of poverty in seven years. Why don’t we do what they did? | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
You can learn a lot about taxi driver relations, a New York cabbie used to say, by watching how two drivers interact when stopped at a light late at night and a passenger is waiting up ahead. (Read more.)
A reflection on what it means for a person who experienced homelessness to finally have the documentation that allows him to vote, and what it took to get there. | From: One Step Away (Read more.)
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