Income Inequality

New Jersey is allocating more than $19 million to the creation of affordable housing and efforts to protect residents from eviction.

Lawmakers tacked on a $1.4 trillion catchall spending bill and thousands of pages of other end-of-session business to create a massive bundle of bipartisan legislation.

More than 10 million people are out of jobs, and some of the hardest-hit industries are also among the lowest paying, including retail, leisure, hospitality and tourism.

Highlights of the measure with overall funding amounts and specific amounts for some but not necessarily all initiatives.

The agreement would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefits and $600 direct stimulus payments to most Americans.

The sudden rush towards agreement comes after months of public, partisan bickering and virtually no private negotiation on an aid package.

More than half of all renters in West Philadelphia’s District 3 struggle to pay rent. Without policy change, many could be priced out, a new report suggests.

About 400,000 Pennsylvania residents are expected to lose Pandemic Unemployment Assistance when it sunsets the day after Christmas.

The transit agency was set to increase fares at the start of the new year in January.

Nine months into the pandemic, and lines outside food pantries are still a common sight around the country: families waiting in row after row of cars

With lawmakers facing a mounting year-end to-do list, a deal on a new coronavirus relief package continues to be elusive for Congress.

The amendment, from Councilmember Helen Gym, extends the requirement through March 31, 2021.

Jobless claims rose sharply last week as critical relief programs, including expanded jobless benefits, are due to expire the day after Christmas.

In the program’s third year, there were more applications than ever before.

In sharing modeling used to follow the virus, the governor said a moderate-case scenario can be achieved by mask-wearing, distancing, 'using common sense.'