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Data sharing program worries immigrants
Immigrants, activsts, and politicians are calling on Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter to reject a new data sharing program that links lo ...
16 years ago
Advisory board creates criteria for schools
Some of Philadelphia’s poorest performing public schools will be transformed under a new program dubbed the “Renaissance Scho ...
16 years ago
Nutter submits five year budget- Plan C
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has delivered a revised five-year budget plan to City Council. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter ...
16 years ago
Budget stalemate threatens social services
Harrisburg remains mired in a seven-week-old budget stalemate that is fraying Pennsylvania’s social safety net. Harrisburg ...
16 years ago
Advocates pitch health reform to middle-income Americans
Health premium costs outpace wages in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The rising cost of health insurance is outpacing wages – b ...
16 years ago
Pet, Dinner, Research Subject – Our Complicated Relationship with Animals
When WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott set out to understand the passion of animal rights activists – she got a ...
16 years ago
The program gets to the heart of health care reform: trying to ferret out cost savings from a system that doesn’t want to give them ...
16 years ago
N.C. Wyeth illustration rediscovered
A 1919 illustration originally published in Everybody’s Magazine is being seen in a new light today after some high tech investigat ...
16 years ago
Delaware health care costs rise faster than earnings
A new report from the non-profit health care reform advocate group Families USA says health care premiums in Delaware went up 88% since 2 ...
16 years ago
Approval for a children’s vaccine is expected to help make up for a national shortage The Food and Drug Administration today ...
16 years ago
City Council considers bill to clean city
With Philadelphia facing a budget crunch that could lead to 3,000 layoffs, City Council is preparing to consider a bill introduced in the ...
16 years ago
School District subject of reality show
The School Reform Commission has approved a proposal from a TV production company to bring actor Tony Danza into Northeast High School th ...
16 years ago
SEPTA pushes back deadline to modernize
The standoff over tolling I-80 is one factor leading to delays in modernizing the fare collection system for the region’s public tr ...
16 years ago