Income Inequality

More than 43 million owe a combined $1.6 trillion in federal student debt, with almost a third owing less than $10,000, according to federal data.

The program helped hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians last season, according to officials. It's open from November through April.

A statewide coalition will host three workshops, where residents can learn about the harmful health impacts caused by incinerators and other polluting facilities.

Philadelphia’s new lottery admissions system will likely bolster the overall proportion of Black and Hispanic students in the incoming ninth grades.

Many states moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes and weaker social support for children and families.

Thousands of PECO customers lose access to A/C or fans each summer when they can’t pay their electric bills. Experts want more limits on shutoffs in a warming world.

Foster Angels on Earth hopes to help alleviate some of the stress foster kids face ahead of the school year.

The racial disparity in housing struggles is chronic and longstanding.

Residents and activists marched through the streets of West Philadelphia after law enforcement broke up the encampment after weeks of protests.

Norristown Borough is considering a new “dawn-to-dusk” ordinance, which would make it officially illegal to sleep overnight in the borough’s parks.

Mark Dinglasan, who leads a food bank in Passaic County, has been picked to run a newly created state office that will tackle food insecurity.

As part of an effort to reduce the number of people in Delaware experiencing homelessness, the first pallet villages will soon be constructed in southern Delaware.

The symbol of the post-Roe era might not be coat hangers. It may instead be prison bars.

This year's back-to-school shopping season lands in the middle of the highest inflation in four decades — how will this affect spending?

This week, Gov. Murphy will hold two public hearings where people can weigh in on how the remaining $1.4 billion in N.J.'s ARPA funds can be spent.