Income Inequality

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nearly 800,000 people could lose their food stamp benefits if the USDA adopts a new rule aimed at single adult participants.

One year ago, a family died in a Philadelphia rooming house fire. City officials promised reform. Nothing has changed.

A deadly house fire at an illegal rooming house in North Philadelphia last March had city officials calling for reform. But one year later, nothing has changed.

They already got rid of it once before, in 2012. But the program landed back on the GOP chopping block after the state Supreme Court revived it last year on a technicality.

Insurance companies don’t cover most meal plans — because there’s not enough research to prove they should.