$10 million was also committed to the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey to lead the effort.
Se comprometieron 10 millones de dólares totales con United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey para dirigir el esfuerzo.
$10 million was also committed to the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey to lead the effort.
Ambas medidas, si son firmadas por el alcalde, se utilizarán para pagar medidas de deuda por 400 millones de dólares en bonos para ir a las medidas contra la pobreza.
Both measures, if signed by the Mayor, will be used to pay debt measures for $400 million in bonds to go towards anti-poverty measures.
The funds from the tax would be used to finance $400 million in bond revenue to go towards affordable housing and other anti-poverty measures.
The ‘Poverty Action Fund’ is another step in the long journey to pull 100,000 Philadelphians out of poverty.
Sabemos cómo afecta el humo de un cigarro o la pintura con plomo en el cerebro en desarrollo, pero también debemos prestar más atención al estrés emocional tóxico.
We know the effect of things like second-hand smoke and lead paint on the developing brain, but we need to pay more attention to toxic emotional stress, too.
As the vice president of civic affairs at the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, Yvette Núñez has helped expand efforts that directly impact those who are economically disadvantaged.
The main cities of the South American country have been hotbeds of demonstrations against the economic measures of President Sebastián Piñera.
Las principales ciudades del país suramericano han sido focos de manifestaciones en contra de las medidas económicas del presidente Sebastián Piñera.
A newly-established Special Committee on Poverty Reduction and Prevention wants the poverty rate below 20% by 2024.
The 10.2 percent reading represents 62 million people, and is the highest for the region since 2008.
La reciente ceremonia en el norte de Filadelfia con motivo del cambio de nombre de una sección de Glenwood Avenue fue un paso para retroceder la profunda pobreza que impregna a la ciudad.
The recent ceremony in North Philadelphia renaming a portion of Glenwood Avenue in honor of legendary heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier was a salient step in pushing back on a profound poverty that permeates the city.
While everybody remembers Martin Luther King Jr., few talk about the segregation that still haunts our communities.
Cuando todos conmemoran a Martin Luther King Jr., pocos hablan de la segregación aún latente en nuestras comunidades.
The Latino community will be the most affected by the Republican fiscal project.
Las comunidad Latina será la más afectada por el proyecto fiscal Republicano.
For Philadelphia filmmaker Gilberto Gonzales the mere mention of the name Donald Trump unleashes an inferno of verbal fire citing failures of the President coast to coast on issues of import to Latinos from Trump’s readiness to squander millions on building that border wall to Trump’s “mishandling” of recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.
Last week, I spent about $2 on a tube of ChapStick lip balm for one of my students who showed up to school with a mouth so dry and cracked that his bottom lip was bloody.
The struggle for a decent home is the day-to-day life of millions of Chileans. This is their story.
The spoils society advances.
The “spoils society” is a phrase I coined some years ago to illustrate a basic problem of wealthy societies, including, of course, the United States.
The hurricane's human cost is particularly apparent in Immokalee, a southwestern Florida town of around 20,000 inhabitants where approximately half of the population are undocumented farmworkers from Mexico, Guatemala and Haiti who work in tomato, cucumber, bell pepper and pumpkin fields.
Philadelphia is not only the City of Brotherly Love, it is also the City of Sisterly Effectiveness. The City now joins thirty-one other major American cities with women’s commissions, dedicated to shining a light on issues that women experience through intersectional data-collection and discourse, and tearing down the barriers of male dominance in a variety of fields, sectors, and categories.
