“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.
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.
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.
The Bucks County Opportunity Council is asking for sponsors to donate gift cards and school supplies for low-income families.
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.
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.
