Employment
After a ‘long, difficult journey,’ vaccines provide hope to Philly restaurant workers
A coalition of restaurant owners has organized a series of mass vaccination events for industry workers who are happy for relief after a rollercoaster year.
4 years ago
What’s in the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill?
The massive relief package is slated to cross President Biden's desk this week.
Air Date: March 11, 2021
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NPR
Workers are moving first, asking questions later. What happens when offices reopen?
As the pandemic stretched on, some employees moved hundreds of miles from the offices they're supposed to return to once it's safe. Will their bosses make them come back?
4 years ago
Delaware lawmakers renew push for $15 minimum wage
After both of Delaware’s Democratic U.S. senators voted against adding a $15 minimum wage measure to the stimulus, local advocates are renewing their push.
4 years ago
NPR
‘Why us?’: A year after being laid off, millions are still unemployed
Millions who lost jobs at the beginning of the pandemic are still out of the labor force, making up levels not seen since the Great Recession.
4 years ago
N.J. says no need to file new unemployment claim as benefit year ends
The announcement comes as new unemployment claims in N.J. are at their lowest levels since the pandemic began.
4 years ago
Essential workers are 55% more likely to get COVID-19, study of Philly-area residents finds
Risk ripples outwards. A family member cohabitating with an essential worker has a 17% greater chance of testing positive. Other roommates face a 38% increase.
4 years ago
Glitches in Pa. unemployment program ‘a disaster’ for vulnerable residents
Amid surging job loss due to COVID-19, a no-bid contract led to bungled unemployment payments to people who weren’t given timely information about errors.
4 years ago
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Unemployment in the year of COVID
As we continue our series on how the pandemic has reshaped work in America, we'll discuss joblessness and unemployment over the course of the pandemic.
Air Date: February 19, 2021 10:00 am
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Huge drop in federal aid for the poorest is blamed on closed Social Security offices
New data show that the number of new SSI awards given in January was the lowest on record — but it wasn't because there were fewer people in need of the benefits.
4 years ago
Minimum wage hike a priority for Delaware’s Poor People’s Campaign
A leader of Delaware’s chapter in the national movement says having Joe Biden in the White House can help make his state a model for America.
4 years ago
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Broke in Philly
Child welfare nonprofits in Philly call for teachers to return to classrooms
The coalition argues that schools can be reopened safely this month, but teachers must heed the district’s call to return in order to begin that process.
4 years ago
US employers add just 49K jobs as unemployment falls to 6.3%
Friday's figures reflect a faltering job market, slowed by a pandemic that is still causing consumers to avoid traveling, shopping and dining out.
4 years ago
Upper Darby and the township workers union are at odds over a no-layoff clause
The union represents the township’s sanitation workers and animal control, parking enforcement, and other non-first responder uniformed employees.
4 years ago
Who gets paid more than $200,000 at a part-time job? Some former SEPTA managers
The positions are just a sliver of SEPTA’s 9,400-strong workforce, but the handful of part-timers collectively cost the agency about $1 million a year.
5 years ago