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.
Prohibiting the use of someone’s existence as a legal excuse for engaging in violence against them shouldn’t be a controversial or partisan issue.
“Homelessness is caused by poverty,” said Estelle Richman, HUD Chief Operating Officer during the Obama administration. “These are poor people … Many of them are working. They just don’t have enough money to pay the rent.”
Nuclear war is a real and present danger that we must acknowledge and confront, writes Ira Helfand.
Founder James Lamb said print media was a void that needed to be filled. “I just really like a physical, handheld thing that can be saved, that can migrate when I drop one at the bus stop.”
The Trump administration wants to scoop up voter registration lists and other election data from all 50 states.
The nonpartisan voting rights organization wants everyone in the county to be registered, educated, engaged and active voters.
