Income Inequality

“We wanted this project to feel like Frankford, to be about Frankford, and be for Frankford,” said City Councilmember Maria Quiñones-Sanchez.

Comcast announced the July 2022 recipients of their RISE fund pandemic relief grants. 100 Philly-area businesses were awarded $10,000.

Independent funds that help people pay for abortions have been flooded with donations since Roe v. Wade was overturned, but demand and costs are also rising.

City officials expect the additional money to be used up quickly, and help roughly 2,600 households.

When the city declares a heat health emergency, new utility shut-offs are banned. But service is not automatically restored for accounts already shut off.

An in-person hearing is slated to take place Friday at City Hall.

Water shutoffs for delinquent accounts will be delayed once again because a citywide “Heat Health Emergency” has been declared.

The department is working to get more customers connected to aid if they need it and changed the shutoff trigger from $150 to $1,000.

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for bread.

Delaware is experiencing a rise in the number of residents seeking help, whether it be with housing costs, Medicaid, or food assistance.

Launched in 2019, the Restore Repair Renew program offers low-interest loans to homeowners who need to make major fixes to their properties.

The program that created the art gives daily pay for daily work and offers social services for artists.

The property at stake is known as the UC Townhomes, and it’s in the continually-gentrifying University City area.

From 2017 to 2020, the Point in Time count showed a decrease of only 48 people in Chesco’s homeless population. Over the last two years, that number has dropped by 120.

Baristas at Starbucks as well as indie coffeehouses have driven a surge in organizing. They see their activism as benefiting not just themselves, but working people broadly.