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Income Inequality

Philadelphia ranks #4 on the list of most challenging places to live with asthma in the U.S. Thirteen percent of the city's children suffer from the chronic condition. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health
Broke in Philly

Why racial disparities in asthma are an urban planning issue

African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites.

6 years ago

Damilla, a One Step Away vendor (ONE STEP AWAY)
Community
Billy Penn

What’s it like to be homeless in Philly? This podcast takes you there

“Heard” features stories from people who’ve lived on the street.

6 years ago

In this May 1, 2019, file photo Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee in Washington. Powell says the United States needs to find ways to address a decades-long slowdown in income growth and upward economic mobility. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo, File)
Money

Powell: Policies needed to address slowdown in income growth

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday the United States needs to find ways to address a decades-long slowdown in income growth and upward economic mobility.

6 years ago

Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
The Why
Education

Why being a first-generation college student is uniquely hard

Your parents are still the biggest indicator of how successful you'll become.

Air Date: May 6, 2019

Listen 12:32
Curio Theatre Company sells $1 tickets at the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll in June 2018. (Courtesy of Curio Theatre Co.)
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia theater companies experiment with pay-what-you-want pricing

Theater companies are reaching out to lower-income patrons with alternative ticketing models.

6 years ago

Listen 2:04
Bryan Romero has his hair cut by barber Jojo at Vibes barber shop on fifth street in the Fairhill section of Philadelphia. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Critiquing Kenney: For North Philly residents, everyday problems overshadow politics

The name Jim Kenney didn’t inspire much emotion around Fairhill and Strawberry Mansion. People are focused on worries that never seem to change no matter who's in City Hall.

6 years ago

Listen 9:19
Rowhomes at 34th and Spring Garden Street for sale or rent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Broke in Philly

Philly housing costs rising faster for poor and middle class than for the wealthy

Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.

6 years ago

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, addresses an overflow crowd outside an organizing event at McCoy's Bar Patio and Grill in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. (Nati Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Elizabeth Warren unveils $640 billion college debt forgiveness plan

The Massachusetts senator says the proposal unveiled Monday would eliminate almost all student loan debt for 42 million Americans.

6 years ago

Dee McDowell (left), who is experiencing homelessness, collects her mail from volunteer Chris Martin at Broad Street Ministry on Avenue of the Arts. (Anthony Pezzoti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Community
Broke in Philly

Mail for the homeless: A local lifeline for people off the grid

Since 2010, Broad Street Ministry has served as a kind of post office for people experiencing homelessness. Those who comes in can claim the ministry’s address as their own.

6 years ago

Arizona State Elections Director Eric Spencer, middle, helps Arizona Healthy Working Families Initiative group members deliver more than 270,000 signatures to the elections office at the Arizona Capitol, Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Phoenix, in hopes of qualifying a measure for the November ballot to raise the state's minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 and provide earned sick days to workers. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
Money
PA Post

Why and how 11 Trump states raised the minimum wage, explained

Here’s a look at the path to minimum wage increases in other reddish states.

6 years ago

Food Bank workers prepare lunch inside the industrial kitchen at the new facility in Glasgow. The kitchen will be used for training in the expanded culinary program. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

Delaware food bank opens expanded facility to help meet needs of 114,000

The Food Bank of Delaware expands ability to help more than 114,000 residents in the state who struggle with food insecurity.

6 years ago

A view of the Philadelphia skyline from the Market-Frankford elevated line in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

More inventors, more renters: Four surprising takeaways from Pew’s annual report on Philly

Pew’s ‘State of the City’ report reads like Philly’s annual physical, clocking growth, successes, and struggles over the past 10 years.

6 years ago

Patrons file into the EAT Café on Lancaster Avenue in University City. The pay-what-you-can restaurant will close on April 19 after 2 1/2 years in business. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Money

Saying goodbye to EAT Café: Philly’s first pay-what-you-can restaurant to close

Drexel’s pay-what-you-can restaurant is going out of business.

6 years ago

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The high cost of good child care

We explore the rising cost of child care -- why quality daycare is so difficult to find and how to make it more affordable.

Air Date: April 11, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Stacey Abrams: her politics and her life

Stacey Abrams talks about her book, "Lead from the Outside" and about current politics, voting rights, and her personal story.

Air Date: April 5, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:31
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