Public health predictions indicate that COVID-19 will continue to take a toll on our families and economy well into next year. Our elected officials need to plan for that scenario. We need to do everything possible to make sure people have a roof over their heads next week, then next month, and beyond. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
As a source of relief for those who lost jobs and income during the pandemic, Congress passed the CARES Act in March and activated an additional $600 per week in benefits for people who qualified for unemployment. That $600 bonus ended late last week and means significant changes to come for the more than 25 million people who received it. | From: Technical.ly Philly (Read more.)
Kate Jacoby and Rich Landau have decided to close their more casual concept, V Street. This comes amid attempts from a coalition of former and current Vedge and V Street employees organizing for better working conditions ahead of a planned reopening. | From: Philadelphia Magazine (Read more.)
More than 50 stagehands and live event workers pushed the tools of their trade – wheeled roadie boxes – around Philadelphia City Hall Friday as part of their demand for more government support while their industry is shut down due to the pandemic. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Buses stranded passengers, trains stopped coming, and planes flew empty. The burden of commuting in the midst of a pandemic weighed heavily on essential workers as the world halted to a pause. Let’s dive a little deeper to review what were the environmental and personal impacts of these shifts. | From: Green Philly (Read more.)
Mientras que los trabajadores esenciales continúan valientemente yendo a trabajar en medio de la creciente pandemia de coronavirus, Pensilvania está ofreciendo una forma de compensar a sus empleadores por el esfuerzo. | Para: AL DÍA (Read more.)
The $600-a-week federal unemployment benefits boost is set to end on July 25 for workers in Pennsylvania, and so far no tangible replacements have been approved. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
The nationwide day of action, part of the broader Black Lives Matter uprisings sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, took place in more than two dozen cities nationwide. It aimed to link the Black Lives Matter struggle to the fight for workers’ rights, and call attention to the racial discrimination that Black workers face on the job, which workers say has only worsened during the current health crisis. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Brandywine—through their partnership with Mount Vernon Manor in Mantua and Centennial Parkside CDC and a few of their restaurant tenants—have been able to supply 12,770 meals and counting to underserved communities in Philadelphia. By the end of the summer, the program is aiming to serve a total of 13,600. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
Launched on July 16, the COVID-19 PA Hazard Pay Grant Program is another part of the state’s $2.6 billion allocation from the federal CARES Act. While small business aid got $225 million of the pie, hazard pay is getting its own $50 million chunk, and is run out of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
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