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Income Inequality

Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part One: How Ontario’s vision of equity for schools contrasts starkly with Pennsylvania’s

Part One of our Ontario series

8 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part Three: How one Berlin school integrated by segregating

Part Three of our Berlin series

8 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part Two: The rise and fall of Berlin’s plan to integrate schools

Part Two of our Berlin series

8 years ago

(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo, file)
Courts & Law

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 ...

8 years ago

 This class on flight is part of the Summer Learning Collaborative that seeks to reduce the achievement gap between low-income children and those of means. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
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Education

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 ...

8 years ago

Education

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 ...

8 years ago

 Artist Jim Nuttle captured Leah Buechley's Learning Innovation presentation on May 23.
Speak Easy
Education

Does technology exacerbate educational inequality?

Designer, engineer, and educator Leah Buechley has spent her career encouraging kids, particularly girls, to experiment creatively with t ...

8 years ago

A Costa Rican family walks near their home in South Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

‘Diego’ and ‘Natalia’: Choosing to be unauthorized over unemployed

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the per ...

9 years ago

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 Officers salute as a hearse carrying the body of Jersey City Police Department Officer Melvin Santiago during a procession prior to funeral services. Santiago was shot in the head while still in his police vehicle July 13. His death has prompted some New Jersey lawmakers to call for reinstatement of the death penalty for police killers. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Some of Pa.’s wealthiest communities get state police coverage at no cost

The finding is in a report from the Pennsylvania Economy League. ...

9 years ago

 Makayla Grant gets busy on her first day of preschool at SPIN-Parkwood on Jan. 4, 2017. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Speak Easy
Education

Soda tax benefits all, even its biggest critic

The Philadelphia Beverage Tax benefits Philadelphians. To say otherwise ignores the big picture. Criticism of the tax merely focuses on i ...

9 years ago

 A mural is shown in Philadelphia's Mantua neighborhood at Fairmount Avenue and 34th Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Courts & Law

Philly should relieve eviction crisis by funding legal representation for low-income tenants

In the nation’s poorest big city, with an overburdened shelter system that regularly turns away requests for housing, our eviction rate ...

9 years ago

Kensington and Methacton students pose for a photo during an exchange visit to Methacton High School
Education

How the other half learns: a field trip from Kensington to the suburbs

For one day, a group of Philadelphia teenagers experienced life at a wealthy, suburban high school. This is what they saw. You can ...

9 years ago

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The U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon
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Politics & Policy

More low-wage workers would escape poverty if tax credit included childless

Those of us focused on the well-being of Americans with low incomes have many concerns about the incoming Trump administration, but we se ...

9 years ago

 (From left) Gwenn Mascioli, Bonnie Koss, and Nicole Scherer are parents from the Paoli-Wayne area who donate time to gather resources for Richard Wright elementary school in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Education

Dear Suburban Moms: A note, a library, and a shared responsibility

In 2013, a group of suburban women saw an empty school library in Philadelphia. They’ve been there ever since. Our story sta ...

9 years ago

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Chinatown in Philadelphia (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY
Speak Easy
Health

Hunger is a worldwide problem that hits close to home

About a year ago I interviewed a woman who volunteers at a church-sponsored soup kitchen in Center City. The essay, “ ...

9 years ago

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