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.”
The solution to Trump and Musk’s trickle down chaos is organizing and solidarity.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development provides technical assistance to communities and agencies working to end homelessness across the nation – including Bucks County.
Nevertheless, CeaseFire PA and Bucks County state lawmakers Perry Warren and Brian Munroe are determined to secure more funding, advance more legislation, and strengthen public safety.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
