Efforts to fight poverty in Pennsylvania have long focused narrowly on getting people into jobs, but that won't work if it also pushes people off of a proverbial financial cliff, officials said Friday in McKeesport at the presentation of a report on deprivation in the...
Over the course of a tour to the four corners of Pennsylvania, state Sen. Art Haywood began to envision poverty as a box, with lots of people inside it. The four walls of the box are low pay, inadequate transportation, inaccessible child care and unaffordable...
A group of Pennsylvania Democratic legislators served chips and salsa at El Fuego, a burrito shop next to Washington Square Park Friday to call attention to two efforts — on the state and federal level — to raise the minimum wage for the first time in almost 10 years,...
A sea of orange took over the State Capitol today as lawmakers and activists recognized ‘Gun Violence Awareness Day’. Governor Tom Wolf was one of those in attendance at today’s rally at the capitol and while he says some progress has been made, he’s pushing for more...
HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf joined a group of lawmakers and gun control advocates Wednesday to call for renewed action on gun laws ahead of Gun Violence Awareness Day Friday. “The time has come to end gun violence in Pennsylvania,” Wolf said. “We need to end mass...
Shanna Danielson has a five-year-old who’s about to start kindergarten. He’ll learn a bunch of stuff when he starts school this fall. The alphabet. His numbers. Probably some songs and music. And he’ll learn how to hide from a madman with a gun. Because that’s what...
Days after a gunman murdered 12 people in a municipal government building in Virginia Beach, Democrats in Pennsylvania’s Senate renewed their calls for a slew of gun control measures that face an uphill battle in the Republican-controlled General Assembly.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -- Gov. Tom Wolf joined lawmakers and activists at the state Capitol on Wednesday to commemorate Gun Violence Awareness Day. The governor last year signed Act 79, a law that forces domestic abusers to surrender their guns. It was the state's...
Pennsylvania's top political leaders are calling for an end to gun violence, and at a rally Wednesday at the State Capitol for Gun Violence Awareness Day, Governor Tom Wolf said the state has more work to do. At the rally, Representative Movita Johnson-Harrell...
Five days after a mass shooting at a Virginia Beach government building that left a dozen people dead and several others injured, calls for laws to reduce gun violence in Pennsylvania are being sounded again. In advance of National Gun Violence Awareness Day on...
PHILADELPHIA — Moments after the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wrapped up his appearance at the Justice Department on Wednesday, Representative Dwight Evans stepped out of his district office in a black working-class neighborhood here to visit with local...
Pennsylvania used to be a leader in bringing renewable energy to the state’s power grid, but lawmakers said Wednesday the commonwealth is “lagging behind” its neighbors now. A bipartisan effort to increase renewable energy use in Pennsylvania to 30 percent by 2030...
As a piece of domestic violence legislation that removes guns from those under a protection from abuse order becomes law today, that bill’s champion – state Sen. Tom Killion, R-9 of Middletown – is setting his sights on further restrictions against those who might use...
WPVI GERMANTOWN (WPVI) -- In Philadelphia's Germantown section, 100 men spent their morning talking to children about reading. The event happened Wednesday at Mastery Charter School, Pastorius-Richardson elementary, on Sprague street. 100 black men from the community...
(Philadelphia) April 4, 2019 – La Salle University (“La Salle” or the “University”) today held a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open its new Learning Commons at the Connelly Library, capping off an extensive renovation process to update the existing Connelly...
Three days after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech to more than 10,000 gathered at the corner of 40th and Lancaster Avenues on Aug. 3, 1965, the civil rights legend signed the historic Voting Rights Act. On Thursday, 51 years after King was assassinated in...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 28 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Democrats issued the following news release on behalf of Pennsylvania State Sen. Art Haywood, D-Montgomery/Philadelphia: State Sen. Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) yesterday applauded the findings...
Pennsylvania may be the next state to propose automatic-savings plans for workers, according to the treasurer, Joseph Torsella. Large numbers of Pennsylvanians are unprepared for retirement, and insufficient savings will affect their own lives and the state budget,...
By Brendan Sample With the introduction of the Philadelphia Reign of the Women’s Basketball Development Association, the City of Philadelphia will welcome its first professional women’s basketball team in more than 20 years. The team was officially introduced at a...
HARRISBURG, PA — Senate Democrats are sponsoring a three-bill legislative package designed to provide additional tax credits to farmers, encourage the use of locally sourced food and expand farmers markets. The prime sponsors of the package are state Sen. Judy Schwank...
Senate Democrats have announced that they are sponsoring a three-bill legislative package designed to provide additional tax credits to farmers, encourage the use of locally sourced food and expand farmers’ markets. State Sen. Vincent J. Hughes...
By Laura McCrystal and Justine McDaniel
Residents in Bucks and Montgomery Counties who participated in a blood-testing program because their drinking water was contaminated by chemicals on nearby military bases have a dramatically higher presence of some chemicals in their blood than the general U.S. population — in the case of one chemical, five times more than the typical American.
Stacy M. Brown | Tribune Harrisburg Correspondent
Raising the minimum wage in Pennsylvania would go a long way in the fight against poverty, particularly in Philadelphia where the poverty rate is the highest of any big city in the United States, state Sen. Art Haywood said Tuesday during a news conference at the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg.
The Philadelphia Tribune
The first step toward a solution is admitting there is a problem.
We have a serious problem with poverty in our city.
New office buildings and gentrified neighborhoods tell only part of the story of what is happening in our city.
By Senator Art Haywood | The Philadelphia Tribune
I read the “Broke in Philly” feature in the Sunday Philadelphia Tribune. I agree that fair funding of Philadelphia schools is a priority for lawmakers. We are aware that about 275,000 adults in Philadelphia have incomes below the poverty level. About 136,000 hardworking Philadelphians work in poverty-pay jobs earning less than $10.10 per hour, according to the Keystone Research Center.
The Blade | Editorials
As 50,000 students returned to Detroit Public Schools earlier this month, they found themselves without running water. Tests had found elevated levels of lead in the schools’ drinking water.
“I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broad analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions,” Superintendent Nikolai Vitti told the Detroit community.
September 7, 2018 | By Philadelphia Sun Staff
The Mt. Airy Business Improvement District is proud to announce a third pocket park was installed recently on Germantown Avenue — at the intersection of Pelham and Germantown avenues, transforming yet another vacant corner into an asset that draws people to the commercial corridor to shop, do business, and dine.
TheProgressNews.com | September 6, 2018 HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday renewed his call for passage of a package of reforms he announced in April that will strengthen protections against sexual harassment and discrimination for employees, provide new legal...
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On July 18, 2018 Sen. Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) said that provisions in the recently enacted School Code will prompt school districts to test for lead in drinking water in Pennsylvania schools.
“A 2014 study by the state Department of Health found that 18 communities across Pennsylvania have children who have tested positive for increased levels of lead,” Haywood said. “We must do what we can to reduce exposure to lead and ensure that school facilities do not have lead in drinking water.”