Next City is thrilled to announce that its 2025 Vanguard conference will be hosted in Philadelphia on October 6-9, 2025. The ...

Statewide, poverty reached 12% last year, up from 11.8% in 2022. Meanwhile, people in Philadelphia proper are earning more ...

In his book, Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History, economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin says that “temporal ...

Top-down urban planning and redevelopment doesn’t just disrupt maps and economies. Remaking Black communities like North Philly’s Sharswood also displaces residents’ very sense of time, Rasheedah ...

Philadelphia’s efforts to protect tenants are widespread. In 2020, the city started piloting a program featuring ...

The initiative providing free legal representation to renters making 200% or less of the federal poverty level just expanded ...

Work and Welfare" and "Up and Out of Poverty Now.” Currently based in Philadelphia, she has devoted most of her attention to the rise in home evictions among lower income families. She is the ...

Started in Philadelphia in 2008, Witnesses to Hunger is a research and advocacy project partnering with the real experts on hunger—mothers and caregivers of young children who have experienced hunger ...