Income Inequality
Does Facebook need a humanitarian partner for its new digital currency?
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."
5 years ago
‘I’m drowning’: Those hit hardest by student loan debt never finished college
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.
5 years ago
House passes bill raising federal minimum wage to $15
South Jersey U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross is one of the early sponsors of the minimum wage bill.
5 years ago
How can established small businesses — not startups — get access to capital?
It’s never easy to fund the hustle.
5 years ago
On the Clock with Emily Guendelsberger
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.
Air Date: July 16, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Hiking minimum wage to $15 would boost millions, report says
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.
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‘Dear Akeem’ highlights activities and job opportunities for Philly youth
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.
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N.J.’s minimum wage rises to $10 today in first step toward $15
The law increasing New Jersey’s minimum wage from the current $8.85 bears first fruit today
5 years ago
The gap between rich and poor Americans’ health is widening
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
5 years ago
Philadelphia working to help homeless find day work with immediate pay
Philadelphia officials are trying a new approach to aggressive panhandling and interacting with people experiencing homelessness in general.
5 years ago
GOP hopes to force Wolf to gut General Assistance by tangling it with medical funding
This is the second time Republicans have tried to ax the General Assistance program.
5 years ago
Half of Philadelphia households struggle to make ends meet
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.
5 years ago
Property company gives Philly homeless free apartments for a year
Hope & Door is a partnership between Berger Rental and One Step Away.
5 years ago
Philly’s trash is Chester’s air pollution
Philadelphia sends one-third of its trash to an incinerator in Chester deemed by researchers to be one of the dirtiest in the nation.
Air Date: June 17, 2019
Listen 10:53Philly launched a program to put homeless people to work. Here’s what happened.
The Same Day Work program — developed by Mural Arts with the Scattergood Foundation and MHP, and funded by private philanthropy — is eight weeks into a two-year pilot.
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