Funding is running out for a federal rental assistance program, putting families across the commonwealth at risk of eviction.
Long-term nursing care facilities could close – as have 30 other PA homes in the last five years – leaving elderly, ill or injured local patients in dire consequences.
Sixty percent of families in this country are living paycheck to paycheck.
BCOC’s Economic Self-sufficiency Program has now reached 420 families becoming financially independent since its inception.
From Richlandtown to Bristol, Bucks County nursing home patients, home care patients, and the staff who care for them will be directly impacted by expected massive cuts to Medicaid.
Kids’ games like “Street Survival Homeless Simulator” available on Nintendo Switch illustrate just how broken our society has become as we commodify everything – even people’s suffering.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
Bucks County Beacon reporter Pat LaMarche shares her thoughts on what solidarity and inclusiveness ought to look like on this important day – and year-round.
This is why State Rep. Jim Prokopiak keeps his focus in Harrisburg squarely on “increased education funding, and [the need to] make sure that we have access to affordable healthcare and good paying jobs.”
Doylestown, Morrisville, Perkasie and New Hope were among the locations where local residents protested Saturday because they love their country.
“Big rallies like this give confidence to people who have been sitting on the sidelines but are ready to speak up,” Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“If you want to run a prosecutor’s office that’s really going to keep people safe, you need to be proactive and you need to be out there in the community,” said Khan.
Partisan politics takes a back seat as a community unites to protect its home from a solid waste recycling center.
Democratic candidate for sheriff Danny Ceisler said if elected he vows to “end this deportation partnership once and for all.”
