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Income Inequality

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Radio Times
Urban Planning

Evictions, strikes, and making rent during a pandemic

As the coronavirus continues to upend the job market, many people have started wondering how they will make their rent and mortgage payments on the first of the month.

Air Date: May 21, 2020

Listen 48:58
A barbershop in Norristown is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Community

Nearly 39 million have sought US jobless aid since virus hit

Roughly 38.6 million people have now filed for jobless aid since the coronavirus forced millions of businesses to close their doors and shrink their workforces.

6 years ago

A man buys groceries in a supermarket.
Community

Coronavirus update: Pa. gets federal funds to fight food waste and insecurity 

More than $50 million in federal funding is coming to Pennsylvania to fight food insecurity during the pandemic.

6 years ago

A view of the Philadelphia skyline.
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Urban League of Philadelphia offers funds to families at risk of foreclosure or eviction

Up to 100 families who are at risk of losing their homes because of financial hardship caused by the pandemic are targeted to receive emergency, no-strings-attached assistance

6 years ago

Monkey and the Elephant in Brewerytown, which usually offers employment to youth aging out of foster care, is closed because of coronavirus mandates. (Michaela Winberg/Billy Penn)
Community
Billy Penn

Wolf to foster youth: Executive powers I tapped for shutdowns don’t extend to your aid

Pennsylvania is lagging behind other states in helping foster youth during the pandemic, advocates say.

6 years ago

Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Princeton economists and husband-and-wife co-authors of the new book,
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

“Deaths of Despair”

Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case discuss their book, "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" about income inequality and increased morbidity.

Air Date: May 6, 2020 10:00 am

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Philadelphia skyline
Community
Billy Penn

Buy local: How Philly’s biggest institutions can help create a more equitable post-coronavirus region

We need to start laying recovery groundwork now.

6 years ago

For Philly cofounder David Brindley's kids help unload a truck of meal boxes. (Jeff Wicklund of the Enterprise Center)
Community
Billy Penn

Give help, get help: Two new apps offer food delivery — and a chance to volunteer

For Philly and Your Neighbor Good are helping Philadelphians in need.

6 years ago

Volunteer Steve Huber drops off a box of food to a senior is public housing. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Food pantries hit with more need, less supply during pandemic

Organizations that feed those in need have been forced to change the way they operate during the pandemic.

6 years ago

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Some homes in the 3700 block of North 15th Street, where six Philadelphia police officers were wounded during a shoot out in August, still have the bullet holes. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
Billy Penn

Stimulus could heighten racial economic inequality, historians warn

Like the New Deal and G.I. Bill before it, the latest federal attempt to juice the economy will play out unevenly.

6 years ago

Dana Heller, 3rd medical student, Dr. Pierre Chanson, Natalie Gonzalez, 4th year medical student, Dr. Renell Dupree, and Dr. Ala Stanford, are part of the Black Doctors COVID-19 consortium. They are taking mobile testing at-risk zip codes in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Black doctors consortium takes COVID-19 testing into their own hands

Black Philadelphians are disproportionately dying of coronavirus. Now, a group of Black doctors is trying to bring tests to their neighborhoods.

6 years ago

Roderick Sanders came to pick up food at a Long Branch food pantry after losing his job in a local restaurant. (Jon Hurdle/NJ Spotlight)
Community
NJ Spotlight

Pressure on Food Banks and Pantries as Demand Surges with Rising Jobless Ranks

Food distributors hit by reduced donations, higher prices and fewer volunteers

6 years ago

Hungry residents wait in line to pick up free food from the city Monday at Aspira Charter Stetson in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Radio Times
Health

Poverty and the pandemic

We look at how the coronavirus disproportionately affects people living in poverty and talk about gun violence in Philadelphia during the outbreak.

Air Date: April 7, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:14
More than 830,000 Pennsylvanians have abruptly found themselves without a job or income following the statewide shutdown of schools and all but “life-sustaining” businesses — decisions intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (Tim Tai/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Radio Times
Money

Unemployment during coronavirus

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to slow the economy, countries all over the world are grappling with unemployment. How do different countries compare?

Air Date: April 3, 2020

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With much of the country ordered to stay at home, countless businesses have shut down and millions are out of work. (Mark Thiessen/AP)
NPR
Community

6.6 million file for unemployment, another dismal record

The number of new people claiming unemployment benefits totaled a staggering 6.648 million last week — doubling the record set a week earlier

6 years ago

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