From WHYY: The new Poor People’s Campaign is organized around “four evils” – systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and environmental devastation.
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• Philly Unveils a Plan to Deal with the Eviction Crisis | From: Next City
• Why a Philly councilman wants to stop marijuana testing for parolees | From: Billy Penn
• Reframing economic injustice in America’s poorest big city | From: Columbia Journalism Review
• New Media Initiative Looks to Find Solutions to Philadelphia’s Enduring Poverty Problem | From: Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity (Read more.)
In the dozen-or-so stories Broke has published since its launch, its media partners have made strides in avoiding stereotypes and stigmatizing language. The group has also made community engagement central to the project’s development, event planning, and reporting process. From: Columbia Journalism Review (Read more.)
Poverty has long been a central challenge for the city of Philadelphia. Now, a collection of the region’s media organizations – including both large and general interest newsrooms and small community and ethnic media – are working to cover the issue more robustly and identify potential solutions. From: Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity (Read more.)
Councilman Derek Green last month proposed a change to Philadelphia drug policy: he wants to stop testing people on parole for pot use. Making that change, he believes, would reduce Philly’s prison population and open up more treatment beds for people with addiction. (Read more.)
Landlords filed for eviction 24,000 times in 2017, meaning one in every 14 renters in the city faced eviction at some point during the year. From: Next City (Read more.)
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Every year, hundreds of kids are kicked out of suburban Philadelphia school districts for residency fraud. Maybe even thousands. This little-discussed corner of the K-12 world contains so many of the issues that shape education in Pennsylvania today. (Read more.)
Reporters working on Broke in Philly stories will ask the people we are reporting on how they describe themselves, or how they would like to be described in the article or broadcast. (Read more.)
Now a new program is trying to break that cycle by offering trauma therapy to children living or attending school in parts of North Philadelphia. Run by the Joseph J. Peters Institute (JJPI), a Philadelphia leader in trauma research and treatment, the program is free to children aged 3 to 18, regardless of parents’ insurance. Philadelphia already has a network of mental health providers offering trauma-informed therapy, but they are only open to Medicaid holders, and none had been based in the 22nd Police District. (Read more.)
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