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Income Inequality

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

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 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 ...

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 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 ...

9 years ago

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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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 years ago

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