Comcast’s $10 internet for low-income Americans is exploding in popularity
Nearly 200,000 Philadelphians take advantage of Internet Essentials, along with six million users nationwide.
Posts tagged with Poverty
High cost of being broke: Cell phones are crazy expensive
When you can't pass a credit check, costs add up even faster.
This Philly housing project helps residents double their income
The Women's Community Revitalization Project offers 282 units and a slew of community services.
More than in other cities, Philly families resort to crowdfunding for funeral costs
The GoFundMe page for Philadelphia is nearly half memorial campaigns.
BROKE: This year-long reporting project examines the struggle for economic justice in Philly
Nearly half the city's residents can't make ends meet. That's not ok.
Philly program helping hungry families cook healthy is expanding
Sunday Suppers will open a Germantown site in early 2018.
Most Philadelphians can’t afford Center City. Can inclusionary zoning make a difference?
City Council is pushing for mixed-income housing while Philly is being called a "tale of two cities."
Weekly Kensington workshops will become a neighborhood-based play
Residents will write and star in this traveling show next fall.
Why affordable housing is hard to find — and develop — in Philadelphia
It’s about shrinking federal dollars and an old-fashioned formula that isn’t going away
Philly homeowner stats: Fewer people of color own homes now than they did in 1980
It's one negative effect of the city's real estate boom.
2 Philly, PA pols on why they won’t stop trying to raise the minimum wage
A Q&A with Rep. Patty Kim and Councilwoman Helen Gym