News Archive

Housing

• New hope on foreclosures
• The Subprime Crisis and Philadelphia
• Statement of Pamela Kennebrew, Philadelphia Unemployment Project
• Testimony of John Dodds before City Council (pdf)
• Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program
• Advocacy key to Philadelphia foreclosure plan
• Philadelphia devises program to stem foreclosures
• Foreclosure Crisis: Now I Know why There Is One
• Judge Jones sees help coming for homeowners
• Phila. plan would spare homeowners facing foreclosure
• Philadelphia Works on Plan To Help
  Avoid Foreclosures
• 3 On Your Side: Mortgage Help |
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• Hope Now provides no hope for homeowners
• Distressed Owners Are Frustrated by Aid Group
• Homeowners Protest 'False' Hope Now Alliance Homeownership Preservation Forum Call for Foreclosure Moratorium
• Phila. sheriff's home sales suspended
• Mortgage relief plan falling short
• Fed chief urges foreclosure aid
• City Council Hearings on Sub Prime foreclosures
• More-closure solutions
• Earlier Subprime Rescue Falters
• Developing a System to Head Off Wide Spread Subprime Mortgage Foreclosures in Philadelphia
• 3 On Your Side: Mortgage Mess Rescue
• What to do if you are facing mortgage foreclosure
• Bringing bankruptcy home
• PUP Testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee
• Foreclosures, Lenders' Preferred Fix
• Phila. groups helping late borrowers
• Bankruptcy bill will prevent subprime foreclosures.
• Subprime Q&A: What does plan mean? Whom does it help?
• Sweating as resets of mortgage rates near
• Countrywide and
  the Subprime Crisis
• Fix Rates to Save Loans
• Guidelines for new FHA program to help homeowners with ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages)
• Foreclosure fees draw protest rally
• The Money Pit for Homeowners in Foreclosure
• Foreclosure Prevention
• Families facing foreclosure charged $1,700 fee by Sheriff Green
• Phila. offers a tax deal to delinquents

Heath

• Poor Pennsylvanians need access to care
• Health insurance reform depends on questions
• Waiting for health care
• Small businesses & health care
• Pa. Gov Lauds Health Insurance Bill
• Rendell urges quick passage of subsidized health care plan
• Pa. House passes health-insurance bill
• Pennsylvania House poised to pass health plan
• Covering the Uninsured
• A Sick Plan
• Open records? Thanks, but health care is the real concern
• Poll: Broad Support for Requiring Health Coverage
• Report: The Public on Requiring Individuals to Have Health Insurance (pdf)
• RX for PA: Faces of the uninsured
• Impose a full tax on smokeless tobacco
• Covering all Pennsylvanians
• New state wide coalition formed to fight for access to health care
• The Road to Universal Coverage
• In our land of plenty, a fear we could easily eliminate
• Pa. Health Care - Out in the cold
• Improved 'Cover All Pennsylvanians' plan deserves Legislature's support
• Better prescription: Rendell has improved his health insurance plan
• Analysis: Rendell health plan faces big battle
• Too tough a task?
• Rendell Health Care Plan (updated 5/20/2008)(pdf)
• Rendell vows to press ahead on health care
• Universal push for insurance
• New Poll Reveals Strong Public Support for "Prescription for Pennsylvania"
• Health plan will expand coverage, cut costs
• Rendell renews push for health care plan
• Rendell gives insuring all a new push
• Rendell asks public support of affordable insurance plan
• New Poll Shows Pennsylvanians Wants Health Care Reform (PDF)
• Rendell to take case for expanded health insurance on the road
• House Bill 700 [text]
• Pennsylvania’s 2007 Health Care Proposal: Prescription for Pennsylvania (PFD 119kb)
• Renewed push on health care planned
• Dr. Rendell wants you to feel better
• Rendell declares germ warfare at hospitals throughout state
• Midwives approved to prescribe medication
• Rendell bills cover midwives, infections
• Health care proposal still alive
• Pa. health-care system in ‘crisis mode'
• Why we need to enact Cover All Pennsylvanians in the Pennsylvania Legislature
• Opposition to Universal Health Coverage in PA- Where we need to fight!
• Gallup Poll: The average American weighs in on how to fix healthcare
• Why I'm supporting the guv's Rx
• No Safety Nets
• Let's Fill Prescription for PA
• The Rendell Health Plan
• “The Cost of Inaction Is Too High"
• Most Support U.S. Guarantee of Health Care
• States and Federal Gov't at Odds over Aid to Uninsured
• Health Care Reform Act draft legislation
• Health Plan's Goals, Costs
• A Healthy Start
• Rendell: 47 ideas to cut health costs
• Will the public buy Rendell's plan?
• Governor unveils plan to provide access to health care for all Pennsylvanians

Commuter Options

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• 5 bucks pays way to Bucks
• Van pools ease a reverse commute

Jobs

• Democratic leaders may add unemployment benefits to war bill
• Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless