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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Income Inequality

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

Listen 3:15
A form from the DMV suspending a driver's license. (File photo from Big Stock)
Courts & Law

The poverty penalty: Should states suspend driver’s licenses for court scofflaws?

When it comes to court debt, most states — including Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey — will suspend your driver’s license un ...

8 years ago

Joel Berg is the CEO of Hunger Free America.
Community

Hunger widespread across U.S., particularly in Philly

Between 2014 and 2016, one in five Philadelphians were food insecure. That's about 300,000 people.

8 years ago

Former DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman talks about gender parity at an event in Wilmington Tuesday night. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Money

First female DuPont CEO gets real on gender inequality

Ellen Kullman discussed the pay gap, equal opportunities and sexual harassment in Wilmington.

8 years ago

Black Lives Matter activist Asa Khalif (right) takes Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones from simulation to real life at City Hall Tuesday.
Community

Black Lives Matter activists crash another City Hall event, slamming ‘poverty simulation’

Councilman Curtis Jones and several of his colleagues were taking part in the exercise demonstrating the many hurdles confronting the city's most needy.

8 years ago

Kenneth Hammon stands in front of his brick town house in Camden. There is a Mustang car in the driveway
Money

Camden on the rise? New data show poverty is falling

Ken Hammon’s driveway says it all. About halfway down Tuckahoe Road in South Camden, sits the black Mustang the 31-year-old boug ...

8 years ago

Listen 4:21
Bar graphs
You, me, and them: Experiencing discrimination In America
Community

How black Americans see discrimination

We asked black Americans whether they believe discrimination against black Americans exists in the U.S. today.

8 years ago

Jojuan Powell got to spend Mother's Day with her 10-year-old son, Sufyan, because of the Mama's Bailout Day campaign
Courts & Law

Philly activists raising money to bail poor defendants out of jail

A coalition of Philadelphia activists who want to end the city's longstanding cash bail system aren't waiting for the system to change.

8 years ago

Cecilia Zalkind (left) and former New Jersey Chief Justice Deborah Poritz call for changes in the state's educational funding practice. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Education

Sharper focus on education, more equitable funding sought in N.J.

New Jersey must quickly provide a high-quality public education for all children, warned a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the state's public policy decisions.

8 years ago

 Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

City controller pushes Philly to end cash bail for nonviolent defendants

City Controller Alan Butkovitz says eliminating cash bail could save Phillly millions — and help poor suspects who could lose their jobs while in jail and awaiting trial.

8 years ago

Red pencil and calculator
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Republicans rekindle their love of budget deficits

Remember when Republicans hated budget deficits? When they railed nonstop against red ink and pined for fiscal conservatism? That was just their mantra during the Obama years.

8 years ago

Court gavel, brown wood against a dark background
Courts & Law

Philly defense attorneys’ group: Oversight tightened in wake of whistleblower lawsuit

After learning one of their attorneys was working with a suspended license, the Defender Association of Philadelphia has tightened the rules.

8 years ago

Robert McNamara, right, defense secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, is shown in 2001 at a forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Speak Easy
Community

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.

8 years ago

(Bigstock, file)
Courts & Law

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 ...

8 years ago

Listen
 Erie public school advocates rally in the state capitol in 2016 when Jay Badams (center) was superintendent. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Fair 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 ...

8 years ago

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