
Income Inequality
Who fights our wars? Other people’s children
A volunteer-only army outsources foreign wars to the poor and working class — one of the worst legacies of Vietnam, which was also fought mostly by less-privileged Americans.
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Delaware report shows limited legal help for low income residents
A Delaware report shows low income residents have limited access to legal representation in civil cases in the state. On Monday, t ...
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ListenFair funding advocates decry Pa. leaders for playing politics with specialty school money
For years in Pennsylvania, school funding coming from state government was criticized as being irrational, unpredictable, and too-tied to ...
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Another month, another rise in Delaware’s unemployment rate
Delaware’s unemployment rate stands at 4.9 percent for August, that’s half a percent higher than the same time last year. ...
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Ralliers try to convince Pa. lawmakers to act on gerrymandering
Advocates for overhauling the redistricting process packed the Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg Tuesday hoping to persuade lawmakers to take ...
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New effort aims to bring cultural arts learning to eight low-income Philly neighborhoods
For years, arts and culture groups in Philadelphia have tried to make it easier for kids in poor neighborhoods to come and visit. ...
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Listen 2:36Part Five: As its neediest schools struggle, what can Pa. learn from Ontario’s success?
Part Five of our Ontario series
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Part One: How Ontario’s vision of equity for schools contrasts starkly with Pennsylvania’s
Part One of our Ontario series
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Part Three: How one Berlin school integrated by segregating
Part Three of our Berlin series
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Part Two: The rise and fall of Berlin’s plan to integrate schools
Part Two of our Berlin series
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Delaware prison workers get new bargaining rights
Other staff members working inside Delaware’s prisons will now have similar bargaining rights as correctional officers, who already ...
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Collaborating to cut Delaware’s low-income school achievement gap
Catherine Lindroth has had a singular mission the last five summers — reducing the huge achievement gap in Delaware between low-income ...
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In Camden, a castle under siege
This October, Camden is poised to experience a loss as devastating to the troubled city’s spirit as a funeral for one of its many m ...
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Does technology exacerbate educational inequality?
Designer, engineer, and educator Leah Buechley has spent her career encouraging kids, particularly girls, to experiment creatively with t ...
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‘Diego’ and ‘Natalia’: Choosing to be unauthorized over unemployed
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the per ...
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