Income Inequality

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.

Parking lot workers make poverty wages as the industry rakes in profits in Philadelphia, according to a new report.

Even before dozens of parents were charged with paying bribes to universities all over the country, the university system has always been rigged to favor some over others.

The ACLU of Pennsylvania says too many low-income residents are spending time behind bars before trial because they can’t afford bail.

Philabundance is embarking on a far-reaching plan to attack hunger.

Philadelphia is the first major city to ban cashless stores. But anti-poverty advocates and low-income residents never asked for it.

A bill to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour has cleared a legislative hurdle that sets it up for a future vote by the House of Representatives.

Philadelphia is set to ban cashless businesses. But there was no huge outcry, so why did City Council make the bill a priority?

A top Senate Democrat is launching two bills he hopes will prompt his fellow lawmakers to think more carefully about poverty.

One of Governor Tom Wolf’s perennially-unsuccessful policy suggestions may face better odds this year.

Philadelphia City Council voted Thursday for a bill that would ban most city stores from going cashless.