Income Inequality

Despite a legal aid group asking the commonwealth court to grant an injunction, a small cash assistance for the poor has ended, effective Thursday.

Demand for the work program run by Mural Arts is greater than the slots available. Now, Philly is doubling down on the model with $300k and another pilot.

More than 1.7 million people use SNAP in Pennsylvania, according to the administration.

At least five donors have stepped forward willing to satisfy the $22,000 in debt accrued by dozens of students whose parents did not give them money to pay for the meals.

The Trump administration wants to change the way states determine who qualifies for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Two advocacy groups are suing Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services over the repeal of a small cash assistance program for poor people who don't qualify for other aid.

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.