Income Inequality

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a story of impossible choices, the kind parents and administrators confront daily in a large, poor school district.

Nationwide, about 43 million people live below the federal poverty line. In Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, 800,000 peo ...

Nationwide, about 43 million people live below the federal poverty line. In Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, 800,000 people ...

"It's jaw-dropping," said Hunt. "We both have a college degree. We both have reasonably good jobs. I'm not doing something outrageous."

Nationwide, about 43 million people live below the federal poverty line. Here in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, 800,00 ...

Armed with an $82 million tax break from the state of New Jersey, the Philadelphia 76ers celebrated the opening of the team’s new m ...

The broad base rallied by Bernie Sanders appears to remain disjointed and undirected. What can these people build, now that their objective has been deferred?

In the middle of Westmoreland Street, just past North Uber, is a deep red row home with steep steps. In the 1940s and ’50s, ...

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter set an ambitious agenda for schools in his 2008 inauguration speech