Public confidence in the program’s future is waning, and debates continue about potential reforms to ensure its sustainability.
“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.”
In Pennsylvania, for example, officials expect more than 300,000 residents to lose health coverage through Medicaid and over 140,000 to lose food assistance as a result of the GOP’s spending cuts.
Thankfully, there are brave faith leaders standing firmly in the breach, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by Christian Nationalists.
If the two-year limit is enacted, evictions are expected to skyrocket, resulting in an increase in homelessness.
Rep. Roni Green’s life has been about helping people climb out of poverty and fighting for working class families. Before becoming a lawmaker, she was a community and labor organizer for more than 30 years.
Trump’s “big beautiful bill” represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.
Philly has a long history of sanitation strikes that goes back to March 1937.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
“It’s no surprise that billionaires and corporate special interests who are funding a dark money group are thanking Brian Fitzpatrick,” said Bob Harvie, Bucks County Commissioner.
The 34th Annual Ukrainian folk festival on August 24, landing on Ukrainian Independence Day, will be honoring Bobby Pietrangelo of Hilltown and Corey Nawrocki of Lansdale, who both recently lost their lives fighting as soldiers for Ukraine.
“These are our neighbors, colleagues, parishioners, our students – the cruelty with which this is happening and the pace is unacceptable. And a lot of people feel that way,” said Bucks County’s Barbara Simmons.
He is also enlisting FBI, AFT, ICE, DEA, and U.S. Marshals Service agents to assist in his plans to purge the city of its homeless population and crack down on crime.
“When communities lose access to independent journalism, transparency erodes, civic engagement declines, and government becomes less accountable to the people it serves,” said Rabb.
