Income Inequality

The Redding Consortium for Educational Equity is out with a list of priorities members say will help improve outcomes for students in high-poverty schools.

Experts say the number of people falling behind on their mortgages is growing to levels rivaling those seen during the 2008 housing crisis.

Delaware’s northernmost and most populous county hasn’t reassessed the true value of property since 1983. The lawsuit said the omission has hurt low-income students.

Pandemic unemployment benefits are a lifeline for over 400,000 in Pa. who don’t qualify for traditional unemployment. But payments stalled this year and people are struggling.

New Castle County bought the hotel to create a comprehensive shelter and service center to help guests transition to stable, permanent housing.

Life spans can vary dramatically from neighborhood to neighborhood in Philadelphia. A Frazier Family Foundation gift aims to reduce these disparities.

The federal eviction moratorium, implemented through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is intended to help tenants who have been battered economically

Interfaith leaders, workers, and elected officials spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day advocating for a living wage in Pennsylvania.

Why are fewer people getting welfare in this time of high unemployment, expanding enrollment in other safety net programs, and increasing hunger?

Biden and his wife, Jill, joined an assembly line to help fill about 150 boxes with fresh fruit and non-perishables for those in need.

Rethinking everything about how the board does business, including long-held practices, is the impetus for the board’s new “goals and guardrails” initiative.

After a year of hard lessons, Philadelphia officials say a new and improved COVID-19 rental assistance program will come online in March.

Congress has expanded eligibility for SNAP, Secretary Miller urges Pennsylvanians to apply.

A new report from the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia adds detail to how the recession has created two different employment realities, stratified by race and education level.

More than 50 community organizers and student borrowers rallied in front of President-elect Biden’s Center City headquarters to demand he cancel all federal student loan debt.