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Child care centers are struggling to keep their doors open during the pandemic
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Income Inequality
Kids
National

Researchers warn nearly half of US child care centers could be lost to pandemic

In recent months, the CARES Act, the federal emergency assistance, provided $3.5 billion for early child care and development. Advocates say $50 billion is needed.

5 years ago

Housing advocates protest evictions in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Homelessness
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Philadelphia to temporarily block landlords from enforcing evictions

Local landlord group HAPCO said it was informed courts would not enforce lockout orders for an additional two weeks.

5 years ago

Orange barriers enclose chairs and tables that will be used for dining along Sixth Street between Liberty and Penn avenues
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Public Health

Pa. coronavirus recovery: Restaurants can increase indoor dining to 50% capacity on Sept. 21

Gov. Tom Wolf says Pennsylvania restaurants can increase their indoor dining capacity in two weeks — so long as they participate in a self-certification program.

5 years ago

Outdoor dining in Philly
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Food & Drink
Philadelphia

Indoor dining begins limited re-opening in Philadelphia

Philadelphia was the last locality in Pennsylvania to lift its ban on indoor dining Tuesday. But the re-opening comes with restrictions, including a 25% capacity limit.

5 years ago

Kendall Stephens
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

After surviving a brutal attack, Kendall Stephens wants to help trans people citywide

The 34-year-old public health student hopes to go into local government.

5 years ago

A worshipper wears an
Radio Times
Politics
Religion
Social Justice

Politics and piety: Trump’s relationship with white evangelicals

How did the President, whose rhetoric about women and minorities is often violent, become the party of Christians who claim to love their neighbors as themselves?

Air Date: September 8, 2020

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Homeless encampment on Ben Franklin Parkway
Homelessness
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Homeless mothers squat federal housing sites as encampment deadline looms

Several dozen families moved into boarded-up Philadelphia Housing Authority properties. The protest encampments face a Wednesday deadline.

5 years ago

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Barbara Lovett, Doug Lovett, August Muzzi
Business
Delaware
Economic Development

Applications set to open for Delaware COVID-19 relief fund

The Division of Small Business will begin accepting applications online starting Tuesday at 10 a.m.

5 years ago

Cha'Ron and his brother Dallas
Business
New Jersey
Public Health

‘We had lines, mobs’: Labor Day weekend is the busiest of the summer for Seaside Heights

The Jersey Shore town experienced a slow start, but the sunny, warm weather this Labor Day weekend helped to draw people out for one last summer hurrah.

5 years ago

LaQuicia Charnell at Masked Melanin Market
Business
New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity

Camden’s Masked Melanin Market provides a breath of fresh air for Black businesses

Tawanda Jones created an open-air market for Black entrepreneurs in Camden to showcase their wares and support each other while social distancing.

5 years ago

Dee Dunn
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Public Health

Hundreds of workers rally for pandemic protections at Philadelphia City Hall

The group is demanding personal protective equipment, access to COVID-19 testing, hazard pay, no cuts to public services and no more layoffs.

5 years ago

A demonstrator is pepper-sprayed July 30 shortly before being arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest
NPR
National
Policing

Review of federal charges in Portland unrest shows most are misdemeanors

That finding by NPR is in stark contrast to the Trump administration's description of the Oregon city as being under siege by radical leftists.

5 years ago

Jacob Blake
NPR
National
Policing

Jacob Blake shares bedside video from hospital: ‘Every 24 hours there’s pain’

Blake spoke about recovery and community from his hospital bed after being shot seven times by police in Kenosha, Wis. last month.

5 years ago

Anti-Trump protesters take to the streets after a rally at Independence Mall. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Social Justice

‘No more fire and fury’: Group aimed at ousting Trump rallies in Philadelphia

The group Refuse Fascism is promising nonviolent protests from now until Election Day on Nov. 3.

5 years ago

In this July 20, 2020, file photo, Audrey Reed, 8, holds up a sing through the sunroof of a car during a rally in Los Angeles. Ahead of Labor Day, major U.S. labor unions say they are considering work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
National
Social Justice

Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice

Ahead of Labor Day, unions representing millions across several working-class sectors are threatening work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

5 years ago

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