Home & Family
The challenges of buying a home in 2024
What’s it like to buy a house these days? Interest rates are slowly coming down, but inventory is low, and with sky-high prices, first time buyers have it tough.
Air Date: August 21, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 51:44Why does a childhood blanket or teddy bear hold so much meaning? Why do we find it so hard to part with certain objects? This hour, our emotional connection to things.
Air Date: August 16, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 51:26How Pennsylvanians are helping their older neighbors age comfortably
Older adults benefit from volunteer care that keeps them in familiar settings, which help them maintain comfort, autonomy, and finances as they age.
3 months ago
Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it’s over
All Philly city employees were ordered back to the office full-time this summer. Now some workers are wondering whether their jobs are worth the flexibility they're giving up.
3 months ago
Latest Pa. budget leaves embattled child care industry without much-needed funding to boost staffing
Low wages make it difficult for PA child care providers to hire and retain staff, which can lead to long wait lists and abrupt closures.
4 months ago
What NPR readers want you to know about living with a disability
"One person’s experience is their own," Philly's Laura Williams said. “Their personal, individual reality exists alongside the realities of millions of different people."
4 months ago
Why biz groups say tax credits aren’t enough to solve Pa.’s child care crisis
State lawmakers have passed and expanded tax credits aimed at making child care affordable. But business groups say more is needed to address a provider shortage.
4 months ago
Passing on the torch: Is nepotism a good or bad thing?
It keeps power in the hands of the powerful. It limits opportunity. It makes a mockery of meritocracy. But is it all bad? Might there be an economic and societal upside?
Air Date: July 11, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 51:37‘Fathers are a brotherhood’: A Philly mentor program doesn’t want dads to learn fatherhood alone
Focus on Fathers was established in 2001 to help new dads transition to fatherhood. Since then, the program has served over 250 fathers.
5 months ago
How to give good advice, Biden’s medical debt proposal, modern fatherhood
Are you good at giving advice? We're talking to R. Eric Thomas who will have to answer people's questions in his new national advice column.
Air Date: June 13, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 50:01‘Blood Baby’ explores queer parenting with dance, theater and installation
Meg Foley’s multisite, multidisciplinary festival puts queer parenting on par with shifting tectonic plates.
5 months ago
Listen 1:27Free air conditioners available again in Pa. through utility assistance program
The A/C units and repairs are available only to people who received LIHEAP or weatherization assistance in the past year.
5 months ago
Listen 1:09Years later, the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies have continued to sow fear and confusion among immigrants in need of health care.
6 months ago
Listen 1:07Delaware, Tennessee to become first states to offer free diapers for Medicaid families
A Delaware pilot program that provides free diapers and wipes to postpartum parents for the first three months after giving birth will be extended.
6 months ago
More U.S. parents than ever have paid leave this Mother’s Day — but most still don’t
Momentum is building in the Senate and House to expand paid leave. With no federal law, 13 states and the District of Columbia have adopted paid family and medical leave laws.
6 months ago