Income Inequality

The Pa. legislature is able to flex this new power because voters approved a constitutional amendment during the May 18 primary limiting a governor’s authority.

The progressive activists staged a sit-in within Mayor Jim Kenney’s office. They oppose proposed cuts to the city’s business and parking taxes.

Buoyed by $3 billion in excess tax revenue and more than $7 billion in stimulus dollars, Democrats want the state to go big, while Republicans are wary of huge new spending.

GOP governors are moving to end a $300-a-week pandemic lifeline for the unemployed in an effort to push people back to work, with four states set to end them this week.

Rebuilding Together Philadelphia has restarted its repair program for low-income homeowners, continuing to do the work despite pandemic protocols.

The money will be used to tear down what officials called Camden’s last public housing project and replace it with modernized, mixed-income housing units.

With few signs the moratorium will be extended before it is set to expire June 30, though, state officials and lawmakers are looking at how to ease the financial pain.

Occupying vacant properties has long been a tool of political protest — but it also lets families find homes.

Councilmembers Maria Quiñones-Sánchez and Jamie Gauthier have introduced a bill to change Philadelphia’s mixed-income housing bonus.

According to the National Institute For Early Childhood Research, nearly half of all 3-year-olds and a third of 4-year-olds in the U.S. were not enrolled in preschool in 2019.

The funding is part of an effort by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to study whether changing a child's zip code can improve their life in the long term.

The idea of giving Americans cash without conditions once seemed radical. But the pandemic has changed that.

It comes after more than two years of collaboration, interviews, and data collection conducted by an inter-departmental coalition of Montco leaders.

If everyone who is eligible to receive the child tax credits did, Philly could reduce child poverty by one third.

Philadelphia’s Land Bank is the city’s primary vehicle for assembling parcels for developments and a tool for generating affordable housing.