Income Inequality

Paulo Garcia used to sleep in the baseball dugout and empty homes. He found help and housing a year later, motivated by his 2-year-old.

The development sits on Germantown Avenue in the neighborhood’s central business district.

In this episode, we speak with Mecca Robinson, founder of Forget Me Knot Children & Youth Services, and her residents about the intersection of homelessness and foster care.

In this episode, a group of young mothers, a street outreach worker, and Marisol Bello from the Housing Narrative Lab speak about the challenges facing unhoused young moms.

The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program provides cash grants to help cover heating bills that don’t need to be repaid.

Getting federal funding to address youth homelessness is predicated on the success of Philly’s programs over the next two years.

The Community FoodBank of New Jersey distributes food to those in need, and also works on the root cause of food insecurity.

An extra $35 million in tax credits through the Neighborhood Assistance Program is designed to help for-profit companies do more for nonprofits.

The PHA partnership is meant to advance economic mobility by helping make it easier to get to doctor’s appointments and job interviews.

Joy of Sox celebrated with Prevention Point Philadelphia Wednesday after achieving the goal of reaching one million socks by October.

The Biden administration is requesting that Congress appropriate $7.5 billion for WIC in the 2024 fiscal budget, up from $6 billion last year.

More Delawareans are seeking help putting food on the table, in part due to rising food prices.

Anyone arrested in the next several years will have to find bail from some other source besides the Philadelphia Bail Fund.

Families with low income are determined to break the cycle. But the end of some federal assistance is making that harder, experts say.

Comcast and United Way’s program aimed to stem the digital divide in Philadelphia. Now, it’s growing to Bucks, Chester, and beyond.