Income Inequality

Other staff members working inside Delaware’s prisons will now have similar bargaining rights as correctional officers, who already ...

Catherine Lindroth has had a singular mission the last five summers — reducing the huge achievement gap in Delaware between low-income ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...