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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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A voter registration volunteer in Philadelphia in 2018. New registrations had surged going into 2020 but have dropped off dramatically as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. (Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty Images)
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Elections
Public Health

Pandemic puts a crimp on voter registration, potentially altering electorate

Most places where Americans usually register to vote have been closed since March. It's led to a big drop in registrations right before an election expecting high turnout.

6 years ago

This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
NPR
Media
Technology

Twitter points users to fact checks of Trump tweets for the first time

The link was added to a tweet in which the president claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent.

6 years ago

(Kalim A. Bhatti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Facing nearly $5 billion shortfall, Pa. lawmakers plan to pass short-term budget

The plan will allow officials to get a clearer picture of the strain placed on Pennsylvania’s finances by efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

6 years ago

Wind turbines
Business
Energy
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. businesses to get $2.2M in Department of Energy research grants

U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said the goal is to move beyond current technologies.

6 years ago

Health care workers hold a placard that says From Heroes to Zeroes during a protest
NPR
Health Care
National
Public Health

Trump team killed rule designed to protect health workers from pandemic like COVID-19

"If that rule had gone into effect, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan," said former OSHA head David Michaels.

6 years ago

Ballot dropbox outside Philadelphia City Hall (Twitter / @phillyvotes)
Elections
Billy Penn

Philly: Vote now by dropping your ballot into a special box at City Hall

Applications for mail-in voting are up 30x over the last presidential primary.

6 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden depart after placing a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park, Monday, May 25, 2020, in New Castle, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Delaware
Elections
Public Health

Biden makes 1st in-person appearance in more than 2 months

Biden and his wife, Jill, laid a wreath of white flowers tied with a white bow, and bowed their heads in silence at the park. He saluted and said "Never forget."

6 years ago

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen at a demonstration in favor of his government on Sunday.
NPR
International
National
Public Health

White House restricts travel from Brazil, where coronavirus cases near 350,000

Brazil has the world's second-highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections, behind only the United States, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University.

6 years ago

Hillary Clinton embraces President Obama after his address to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
Public Health

A tale of two (convention) cities fearing a second wave of COVID-19

At this point it is hard for convention planners to know whether the last two weeks in August would bring relative calm or a rerun of the outbreaks from March and April.

6 years ago

House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler (R- Lancaster), seated at right, accused the governor of bypassing the legislative process. (Commonwealth Media Services)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Clash between Gov. Wolf, GOP legislature hinges on different understandings of power under the Pa. Constitution

What the governor’s powers are and how they interact with those of the legislature are complex questions and the answers may depend upon who exactly you ask.

6 years ago

Pa. Sen. candidate Nikil Saval. (Screenshot/NikilSaval.com)
Elections
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Local 98 backs Nikil Saval, Bernie-endorsed challenger for Philly state Senate seat

Incumbent Pa. Sen. Larry Farnese has held the powerful Harrisburg pulpit for 12 years.

6 years ago

Pedestrians walk past a polling station on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Elections
Pennsylvania
Politics

With Pa.’s last-minute polling place changes, voters might get conflicting information

Amid a rush to consolidate polling places and update voters, a state web page for people to look up polling places may have been giving outdated information.

6 years ago

A crew of the Civilian Conservation Camps, which was started in 1933, has taken young men off the bread lines during the depression and put thousands to work.  These men, seen in 1940, were at the CCC's Camp Tomahawk in Wisconsin,. They helped fight forest fires by building fire lanes, clearing brush and the lake.  (AP Photo)
Radio Times
Economic Development

The call for national service

We discuss the renewed call to expand national service which would put young people and the unemployed to work fighting the pandemic and helping with the national recovery.

Air Date: May 22, 2020 10:00 am

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A row of signs advertising jobs are posted in front of a Burger King restaurant, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Harmony, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Economy
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania jobless rate hits 15.1% as payrolls collapse

Meanwhile, payrolls fell by more than 1 million to the lowest level in at least three decades.

6 years ago

Wilmington, Delaware (Tim Kiser/Wikimedia Commons)
Delaware
Economy

Despite ‘information deficit,’ Delaware projects slight improvement for revenue

After slashing expectations for state revenue in the coming fiscal year, a state council has added some of that revenue back into their projection.

6 years ago

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