Elon Musk, the billionaire who could end world hunger
10/28/2021 - 21:00
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Elon Musk is close to becoming the world's first trillionaire, and his wealth generates several controversies.
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Elon Musk is close to becoming the world's first trillionaire, and his wealth generates several controversies.
El Ayuntamiento de Filadelfia pone en marcha un Plan contra la Pobreza con 4,5 millones para las organizaciones comunitarias
02/23/2021 - 13:19
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Se comprometieron 10 millones de dólares totales con United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey para dirigir el esfuerzo.
Philly City Council sets Poverty Action Plan in motion to the tune of $4.5 million for community orgs
02/23/2021 - 12:49
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$10 million was also committed to the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey to lead the effort.
El Consejo de la Ciudad de Filadelfia aprueba cambios en los impuestos para hacer frente a la pobreza
12/11/2020 - 15:08
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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.
Philly City Council passes changes to tax abatement, new construction tax to address poverty
12/11/2020 - 15:01
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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.
Philadelphia City Council advances its construction impact tax in continued effort to fight poverty, COVID-19
12/02/2020 - 15:03
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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.
Philadelphia City Council creates $10 million nonprofit fund to fight poverty
11/12/2020 - 16:17
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The ‘Poverty Action Fund’ is another step in the long journey to pull 100,000 Philadelphians out of poverty.
La experiencia de mi primo con el trauma infantil
02/24/2020 - 12:22
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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.
My Cousin’s Experience with Childhood Trauma
02/21/2020 - 11:31
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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.
Changing how we address poverty in Philadelphia
01/24/2020 - 14:39
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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.
A brief summary of the conflict in Chile
10/22/2019 - 14:10
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The main cities of the South American country have been hotbeds of demonstrations against the economic measures of President Sebastián Piñera.
Un breve resumen del conflicto en Chile
10/22/2019 - 13:56
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Las principales ciudades del país suramericano han sido focos de manifestaciones en contra de las medidas económicas del presidente Sebastián Piñera.
City Council President Darrell Clarke talks Philadelphia’s ‘Moonshot’ to lower its poverty rate
10/10/2019 - 09:33
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A newly-established Special Committee on Poverty Reduction and Prevention wants the poverty rate below 20% by 2024.
Number of Latin Americans living in extreme poverty rises
01/15/2019 - 17:00
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The 10.2 percent reading represents 62 million people, and is the highest for the region since 2008.
La pobreza que ensucia los pasos de grandeza de Filadelfia
04/19/2018 - 18:52
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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.
Impoverishment Knocks Out Philadelphia’s Strides For Greatness
04/18/2018 - 09:22
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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.
School segregation is still an issue in US
01/16/2018 - 15:04
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While everybody remembers Martin Luther King Jr., few talk about the segregation that still haunts our communities.
La segregación educativa sigue vigente en Estados Unidos
01/16/2018 - 14:30
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Cuando todos conmemoran a Martin Luther King Jr., pocos hablan de la segregación aún latente en nuestras comunidades.
An Anti-Latino Tax Reform
12/08/2017 - 13:57
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The Latino community will be the most affected by the Republican fiscal project.
Una Reforma Fiscal anti-Latinos
12/08/2017 - 13:27
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Las comunidad Latina será la más afectada por el proyecto fiscal Republicano.
[OP-ED]: Poverty In Philly But Trump Pushes Putrid Policies
11/21/2017 - 13:46
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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.
[OP-ED]: Targeting teacher tax credit hurts students
11/14/2017 - 07:36
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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.
A Decent Housing for Chile
10/23/2017 - 16:36
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The struggle for a decent home is the day-to-day life of millions of Chileans. This is their story.
[OP-ED]: Economic cannibalism
10/10/2017 - 17:22
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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.
Florida's undocumented farmworkers especially hit hard by Irma
09/29/2017 - 05:04
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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.