PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Pennsylvania’s bipartisan COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force is calling on state lawmakers to do what they can to encourage people to get vaccinated. Gov. Tom Wolf and members of the task force each signed the letter addressed to members of the...
GLENSIDE -- State Sen. Art Haywood presented Arcadia University with a $1 million grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) for construction, renovation, and other related costs for a multi-purpose center on July 28. “The higher education...
Es una carrera contra el tiempo. En la pista además hay vallas. Este sábado terminará la moratoria de los CDC que impide el desalojo de las familias insolventes de sus casas. Aún hay dinero federal en Filadelfia destinado al recate de los afectados por la COVID-19....
Mayor Jim Kenney urged Philadelphians to apply for the city’s rental assistance program as the last emergency COVID-19 federal tenant protection, the CDC eviction moratorium, is set to expire Saturday. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Acting Secretary Meg...
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — With the federal eviction moratorium expiring this weekend, state and local officials are pleading with people who are behind on their rent to apply for assistance that will keep them in their homes. The eviction moratorium has been...
State Senator Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) and Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) held a hybrid press conference at Kutztown University Wednesday, to announce new funding for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at PASSHE...
State Senator Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) and Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) held a hybrid press conference at Kutztown University Wednesday, to announce new funding for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at PASSHE...
For Antonia Gunter, 33, of Frankford, it’s a chance to start her own business and take her kids to the beach. For Carolyn Hill, 64, of Franklinville, it’s money for bills and to go out to eat. For Lavern Riddick, 35, of Southwest Philadelphia, it’s a head start on...
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is putting its money where its mouth is. During an event Wednesday at Kutztown University, one of the 14 state-owned schools that make up the system, PASSHE and state government officials announced that the system will...
KUTZTOWN, Pa. | State Senator Art Haywood alongside officials from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education gathered at Kutztown University to announce a portion of money allocated to the state-run schools will go toward efforts to make a major transition...
KUTZTOWN, Pa. – State Senator Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) and Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) held a hybrid press conference at Kutztown University Wednesday, to announce new funding for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)...
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is putting its money where its mouth is. During an event Wednesday at Kutztown University, one of the 14 state-owned schools that make up the system, PASSHE and state government officials announced that the system will...
Harrisburg, Pa. – July 21, 2021 – Today, State Senator Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) and Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) held a hybrid press conference at Kutztown University, to announce new funding for Diversity, Equity, and...
Harrisburg, Pa. – July 21, 2021 – Today, State Senator Art Haywood (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) and Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) held a hybrid press conference at Kutztown University, to announce new funding for Diversity, Equity,...
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is putting its money where its mouth is. During an event Wednesday at Kutztown University, one of the 14 state-owned schools that make up the system, PASSHE and state government officials announced that the system will...
State Sen. Art Haywood has held significant clout in the health care space over the course of the last year as both the minority chair of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee and a member of the governor’s COVID-19 Vaccine Joint Task Force. Haywood, alongside...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — A local state senator is among a number of lawmakers – state, local and federal – calling for the Child Tax Credit payments made available under the American Rescue Plan to be made permanent. Senator Art Haywood, a Democrat representing the 4th...
HARRISBURG — Across the Lehigh Valley and the state, hiring signs offer pay well over the much-discussed minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, even as the set “wage” for plenty of people is a good bit less — $2.83 an hour — because they also collect tips. Those people being...
PHILADELPHIA – July 13, 2021 – Today, State Senator Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) hosted a press conference and rally, in partnership with Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, to call for permanent Child Tax Credit payments. The event was...
PHILADELPHIA – July 13, 2021 – Today, State Senator Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) hosted a press conference and rally, in partnership with Women of Color in the Global Women's Strike, to call for permanent Child Tax Credit payments. The event was held...
Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday vetoed Senate Bill 618, anti-vaccination legislation that would have barred vaccine passports and limited the powers of Pennsylvania’s secretary of health. In his veto message, Wolf called the legislation “misguided and irresponsible.”
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday vetoed Senate Bill 618, anti-vaccination legislation that would have barred vaccine passports and limited the powers of the secretary of Health. Wolf said “this harmful legislation would eliminate the Department of Health’s...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday vetoed Senate Bill 618, anti-vaccination legislation that would have barred vaccine passports and limited the powers of the secretary of Health. Wolf said “this harmful legislation would eliminate the Department of Health’s...
Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday vetoed Senate Bill 618, anti-vaccination legislation that would have barred vaccine passports and limited the powers of the secretary of Health. Wolf said “this harmful legislation would eliminate the Department of Health’s ability to respond...