Income Inequality

The funding designated for contingency sites is not flexible, city officials said.

Of 75,000 people who applied to the PHFA program, fewer than 27,000 got assistance.

A rental assistance program in the bill is key for helping millions of struggling renters at risk of losing their homes in the middle of winter as the pandemic rages on.

The president's last-minute objections are setting up a defining showdown with his own Republican Party in his final days in office.

The job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs.

The team of Philly nonprofits, which serves meals to those experiencing housing and food insecurity, aims to extend its program through March amid the pandemic.

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.