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Income Inequality

Hands reaching out.
NPR
Community

Forget wealth and neighborhood. The racial income gap persists

The study looked at racial disparities in income over generations by looking at de-identified data from 20 million U.S. children and their parents.

8 years ago

The 2900 block of Hope Street in North Philadelphia (WHYY, file)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Everyday Philadelphians will tell the stories Hollywood can’t

The Oscars made me realize that no film is more compelling than the drama playing out in the city I’ve long called home.

8 years ago

Crowds are shown in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963.
Speak Easy
Community

The myth of post-racial America

Civil disobedience is our obligation, not our right. If we do not stand up, ignorance wins. As long as we feel inequality, we cannot say that we live in a post-racial society.

8 years ago

Manuel Pomeles waters his garden in the North Central neighborhood revitalized with support from HUD's axed Choice Neighborhoods program. (Jake Blumgart/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

How Trump’s budget would turn back the clock on progress in Philly’s neighborhoods

Trump's proposed FY2019 budget poses a massive threat to Philly's progress stabilizing neighborhoods, preventing foreclosures and fighting homelessness, city officials say.

8 years ago

Philadelphia School District headquarters (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Education

Time to declare a state of emergency in Philly schools

It is time to stop sentencing thousands of Philadelphia’s children to a lifetime of poverty and despair, thanks to public schools that offer them virtually no chance at a succ

8 years ago

Reginald Moore, 60, of Philadelphia's Point Breeze neighborhood, is a SNAP beneficiary and a critic of Trump's plan to overhaul the program.
Politics & Policy

Trump administration proposes limiting food choices for SNAP recipients

The administration has compared the idea, dubbed 'America’s Harvest Box,' to the fresh food service Blue Apron — but critics say the proposed food is far from fresh.

8 years ago

Councilman Curtis Jones
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘Just cause’ eviction bill clears City Council committee

On Tuesday, a bill intended to protect renters from being evicted without “good cause” moved one step closer to a vote by City Council.

8 years ago

Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil. Black women are 243% more likely than white women to die during or shortly after childbirth.
NPR
Health

Making the case that discrimination is bad for your health

Arline Geronimus coined the term 'weathering' to describe how health problems of marginalized people can be caused by stresses of their daily life.

8 years ago

Waliyyuddin Abdullah drops off daughter Florrie, a first grader, at Powel School in West Philadelphia. Abdullah chose Powel over his neighborhood school in North Philadelphia.
Education

The Philly school choice system no one is talking about

Every year, thousands of Philadelphia families choose a traditional public school outside their neighborhood. So is that a good thing, a bad thing or something else?

8 years ago

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National Urban League President Marc Morial will be speaking during the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2018 Economic Conference held Jan. 9 at the Marriott Downtown. The conference will focus on the city’s economic future. — Photo Courtesy of Marc Morial
The Philadelphia Tribune
Urban Planning

Urban League President on policy for inner cities

8 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017
PBS
Money

Watch live: Trump to celebrate GOP tax overhaul

8 years ago

People wait in line to meet with recruiters during a job fair in Philadelphia
Politics & Policy

Jobless system moves a step closer to four-year funding solution

The state House has passed a bill to fund the commonwealth’s jobless claims system for another four years, and the Senate will likely agree to it.

8 years ago

Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn announcing proposal to invest Delaware tax revenue windfall in a 4-year trust.  (Shirley Min/WHYY)
Community

Delaware coalition announces funding plan for low-income kids

Delaware has found itself with over $50 million in unanticipated one-time tax revenue dollars and one group is trying to persuade the state to place these funds into a trust.

8 years ago

Listen 2:19
Workers listen to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speak at the Pennsylvania Machine Works in Aston, Pa.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

It’s not just a bad tax bill

Why are Republicans so insistent on this legislation? Because the second part of their strategy is to reverse long-established policies that benefit the poor and middle-class.

8 years ago

Protesters shout their disapproval of the Republican tax bill outside the Senate Budget Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017.
The Philadelphia Experiment
Politics & Policy

Tax bill should unite American middle class across racial lines

The top 1 percent of Americans use racial and ethnic strife to distract us from the one commonality that should unite us — class.

8 years ago

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