“These communities in Bucks County were built for working-class people, and for decades it stayed that way. But since 2017, rent has gone up in our region by 50 percent,” said Prokopiak.
The Gene and Marlene Epstein Humanitarian Fund announced an incentive program to anyone who donates a car which is deemed acceptable by BCOC and a certified mechanic.
Students and commuters have talked of needing to get up earlier to make time for longer commutes, unusually crowded buses and skipped stops.
Immigrants make up almost 20% of the U.S. workforce. Industries with a large percentage of immigrant workers include farming, construction, health care and the service industry.
CEO pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.
Millions of Americans will lose health care and food assistance—and many state budgets will go deep in the red—unless statehouses get to work.
“Families in Bucks County and across the state are in crisis—not due to negligence on their part, but due to failures within a system that was supposed to protect them,” said Levittown parent Marlyn Rivera.
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.”
The commonwealth is not just suffering from trouble filling teaching positions – the fallout from that difficulty is landing disproportionately on students with special needs, students living in poverty, and students of color.
The DOJ’s newest lawsuits also targeted California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and New Hampshire after it sued Oregon and Maine last week.
Barack Obama, who spoke in Erie last week, thinks “We [America] are certainly at an inflection point.” But for many area voters, the tipping point came before 2016.
“It seemed to be the worst time in our country to have a Peace Center close, so I decided to make myself available,” said Barbara Simmons, who is coming out of retirement to once again lead the organization.
“If these three justices are defeated, there will be bedlam in Pennsylvania,” warns Shanin Specter, an attorney and founding partner of Philadelphia law firm Kline & Specter and son of the late U.S. Senator Arlen Specter.
