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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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Immigration

Young migrants wait to be tested for COVID-19 at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility
Politics & Policy

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

Confidential data obtained by the AP shows that the number of migrant children in government custody has more than doubled in the past two months.

5 years ago

Clive and Oneita Thompson, with their son, Timothy, inside their West Philly home
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Philly family is free after years in sanctuary, but struggling to start over

The Thompsons, originally from Jamaica, spent 843 days hiding out in two churches in Philadelphia to avoid deportation.

5 years ago

Puerto Rican Day Parade
Community
Version en Español

Las comunidades latinas de Filadelfia reflejan el futuro de Estados Unidos

Las familias latinas, como portadores de la cultura que dan nueva vida a los vecindarios de Filadelfia, ofrecen un vistazo al futuro de los Estados Unidos.

5 years ago

Puerto Rican Day Parade
PlanPhilly
Community
English version

Philly’s growing Latino communities reflect America’s future

The Latino entrepreneurs, families and cultural-bearers breathing new life into Philly neighborhoods offer a glimpse into the future of the United States.

5 years ago

The American Mushroom Institute organized vaccine clinics for Kennett Square's farm workers. (Mark Rutt/Design Design for American Mushroom Institute)
Health

Effort to bring COVID vaccine to Chesco farm workers lifts ‘a weight off’ their shoulders

After waiting their turn, some of Chesco’s mostly Latino mushroom farm workers waited a bit longer to get their shots right on the job.

5 years ago

I Heart Cambodia is one of more than 62 immigrant- and refugee-owned businesses south of Snyder Avenue. (Shira Walinsky/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

How Southeast Asian entrepreneurs create home on 7th Street

From secret food stalls to busy markets, South 7th Street is the place to find Southeast Asian delicacies and ingredients for cooking.

5 years ago

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden wave after stepping off Marine One on the Ellipse near the White House, Monday, May 3, 2021, in Washington. The Biden's traveled Monday to coastal Virginia to promote his plans to increase spending on education and children, part of his $1.8 trillion families proposal announced last week.
Politics & Policy

Biden quadruples Trump refugee cap after delay backlash

Refugee resettlement agencies have waited for Biden to quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States this year since Feb. 12.

5 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a March 1 news conference
NPR
Politics & Policy

Separated families to reunite in the U.S., as immigrant advocates push for more

Four migrant families that were separated at the border by the Trump administration will be allowed to reunify in the U.S. this week, per the secretary of Homeland Security.

5 years ago

New Jersey driver's license (New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission)
Community

Undocumented New Jerseyans are now eligible for driver’s licenses. Here’s how to apply

This policy change makes as many as 450,000 New Jerseyans newly eligible to get behind the wheel.

5 years ago

A selfie Feng Daoyou took in Macau. Her older brother Feng Daokun believes she traveled to Hong Kong before flying to the U.S., from where she first contacted him in 2016. Unlike the rest of her family, she did not marry, and seemed to relish venturing far from home.
NPR
Community

In China, Atlanta shooting victim’s kin struggle to understand her — and her death

Feng Daoyou, who'd lived in the U.S. for about five years, died a stranger in a strange land.

5 years ago

Protesters in Baltimore call for the abolition of ICE
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden administration limits power of ICE to arrest immigrants in courthouses

The decision rolls back a Trump administration practice of seizing people who were in courthouses for reasons unrelated to their immigration status.

5 years ago

President Biden signs an executive order
NPR
Politics & Policy

Immigration agencies ordered not to use term ‘illegal alien’ under new Biden policy

The terms "illegal alien" and "assimilation" are out — replaced by "undocumented noncitizen" and "integration."

5 years ago

In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Unaccompanied children from border arrive in Pennsylvania

The children landed Tuesday night at Erie International Airport and were screened by a physician, dentist and nurse, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.

5 years ago

U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (in blue) of Delaware talks with members U.S. Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas. (courtesy Carper's office)
Politics & Policy

‘We are complicit in their misery’ says Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware after border visit

Delaware’s senior U.S. Senator says the U.S. has an obligation to improve conditions in Central America so migrants have less need to try to escape to the U.S.

5 years ago

Berks County Residential Center, July 19, 2019. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy
WITF

Document: Feds’ proposal refers to expanded ‘bed space’ in Berks detention center

A county commissioner omitted that detail in public comments on the center’s future.

5 years ago

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