Income Inequality

SEIU filed its labor complaint against Drexel University, CCP, St. Joseph University, Temple University, Temple University Hospital, UPenn, and the UPenn Health system.

Applications to Mighty Writers surged more than 1000%.

Wyoming Valley West School District, one of the poorest districts in the state as measured by per-pupil spending, is located in a former coal mining community in NE Pa.

Libra, according to its website, wants to "reinvent" money by making a financial transaction as cheap and simple as "sending a text message or sharing a photo."

From mid-2014 to mid-2016, 3.9 million undergraduates with federal student loan debt dropped out, according to an analysis of federal data by The Hechinger Report.

South Jersey U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross is one of the early sponsors of the minimum wage bill.

It’s never easy to fund the hustle.

One journalist took three low-wage jobs; one at Amazon, one at McDonalds, and another at a call center - to learn about work in modern America.

Gradually raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would boost pay for as many as 27 million workers, but it could also cost as many as 1.3 million jobs by 2025.

In the first “Dear Akeem” video from the Broke in Philly collaboration, Akeem Dixon outlines summer activities and job opportunities for young people in the city.

The law increasing New Jersey’s minimum wage from the current $8.85 bears first fruit today

Income inequality has grown over the last several decades in the U.S. And as the gap between rich and poor yawns, so does the gap in their health, according to a new study

Philadelphia officials are trying a new approach to aggressive panhandling and interacting with people experiencing homelessness in general.

This is the second time Republicans have tried to ax the General Assistance program.

A new report from the United Way found that nearly two million households in Pennsylvania have a hard time paying for basic necessities like housing and food.