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Residents share stories of violence’s impact at WURD Radio event
Broke in Philly partner WURD Radio hosted a two-day community event on violence at Fotterall Square in North Philadelphia’s Hartranft neighborhood. […]
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Slideshow: Broke in Philly invites panel of experts to inform collaborative reporting project
Dozens of journalists attended a panel discussion at the Philadelphia Media Network headquarters in Center City Friday morning, hosted by Broke in Philly to help inform our collaborative reporting project on solutions to poverty. Stay tuned for more reporting on this event from our partners. […]
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Why 1 in 14 Philly renters faces eviction every year
The rowhouse in Port Richmond looked promising, with three bedrooms, new floors, and a small white porch out front. After having moved three times in 15 months, Linda Watson hoped she’d found some stability there with her 21-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son. […]
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Homeless in Philadelphia: Overcrowded shelters, lack of affordable housing hit those with disabilities even harder
After Leola Howell and her 4-year-old daughter became homeless last May, they stayed on Howell’s friends’ couches for eight months, fruitlessly looking for a subsidized accessible housing unit of their own. […]
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For 18 years she lived in Chester’s housing projects. Now she’s returned to inspire
For Marrea Walker-Smith, the words still sting. “You aren’t going to be anything because you come from the housing project.” Decades ago, a 10th grade history teacher at Chester High School said those words to her in conversation. As soon as Walker-Smith’s mother, Dolores Walker, found out, she headed to the school and told the teacher she thought his comment was inappropriate and flat-out untrue. […]
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Eighth graders collect tampons to help Penn first-generation students who can’t afford them
The two girls, along with a third friend, wanted to give hygiene supplies to low-income students at the University of Pennsylvania who are considered first-generation — first in their families on course to graduate from a four-year college. […]
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Kenney’s ambitious workforce plan to tackle blue-collar skills gap
As cities across the country show off how attractive they are to millennials in a mad dash to lure Amazon’s second headquarters, Mayor Kenney took a pause from the high-tech fanfare to announce to the city’s business community an ambitious strategy to train and connect Philadelphians to blue-collar jobs. […]
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Get a first look at Suburban Station’s new homeless services center
Guiding chronically homeless people to the assistance they need is a delicate process, said those who work with the city’s indigent, and requires giving people with nowhere to go a place to feel welcome. […]
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Drexel program addresses trauma to help women in poverty save money – and one day create a bank
India Baxley, a mother of two and a welfare recipient, wants to add an important line to her resumĂ©: Banker. The Northeast Philadelphia resident works with a group of women in poverty whose aim is to create a credit union for people of limited means. […]
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United Way focuses on poverty, upsets groups cut out of funds
The decision by the United Way of Greater Philadelphia & Southern New Jersey to narrow its grant-making focus to fight “intergenerational poverty” means that more than half of the 233 nonprofits that receive United Way money will now come up empty-handed in the fiscal year that begins in July. […]