Politics & Policy

Mileage, meals, lodging, travel, and a special perk called per diems are part of the hidden costs charged to taxpayers to support Pennsylvania’s legislature.

"Every day, you can see an increase in the Taliban's presence," an Afghan who worked with the U.S. tells NPR. "Am I going to even be alive by December?"

The Census Bureau must protect people's privacy when releasing demographic data. Plans to change how it does that have sparked concern over how it may affect redistricting.

With the Affordable Care Act now secure in the framework of the nation's health care programs, Democrats are eager to leap above and beyond.

Philadelphia will create a new youth ombudsperson office designed to advocate for vulnerable young people in group homes and other residential facilities.

Philadelphia is set to spend $155M on anti-violence efforts in the next fiscal year. It’s not all new funding, still the total is a sizable increase.

Three years ago lawmakers fought overnight about raising the lowest legal wage to $9.25 an hour. Now Delaware is joining nine other states with a path to $15.

City Council and Mayor Jim Kenney’s final $5 billion budget deal includes more spending on public services and smaller tax cuts than originally proposed.

After the social unrest prompted by the murder of George Floyd, some are asking: Is it finally time for the U.S. to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

“That’s a comprehensive approach that we’re taking to address this issue,” said Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson.

The Philadelphia Board of Ethics issued a $12,000 fine against a PAC that supported a challenger to District Attorney Larry Krasner.

Green’s bill would earmark 0.5% of the total general fund dollars, which is estimated to start at $26 million in the first year, for the Housing Trust Fund.

Juneteenth is celebrated annually on the 19th of June to mark the date some of the last enslaved people in the Confederacy became free.

Nixon called for an "all-out offensive" against drugs. The U.S. is now rethinking policies that led to mass incarceration and shattered families while drug deaths kept rising.

Pennsylvania's Senate is advancing legislation that substantially expands which outlets can sell bottles or cans of mixed hard-alcohol drinks to go.