News Archive

Housing

• HEMAP applications can be taken beginning today – August 6
• Pa. emergency mortgage-aid program nearer reinstatement
• Pa. House: Use mortgage settlement for mortgage aid
• Sign a Letter to the Attorney General for Funds for HEMAP
• Sheriff Retracts Speech, Withdraws Fee Hike
• Pa. foreclosures outpace U.S. rate
• Judge saves foreclosure program
• Americans brace for next foreclosure wave
• Council: Mortgage program works fine
• Foreclosure Filings Up After GOP Defunds HEMAP
• Philadelphia ‘MoveOn’ Members Upset Over Housing Crisis Protest Outside ‘Obama For America’ Office
• Foreclosure Starts On The Rise, Driven By Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac
• Report: Foreclosures rising in Pa.
• Feb. foreclosure filings in metro area up sharply over 2011 level
• DN Editorial: Stealing home? State should use mortgage settlement for homeowners
• Pa. officials still unsure if mortgage settlement money will go to HEMAP
• Bipartisan support in Senate for housing aid - News - Standard Speaker (subscription required)
• Use settlement money to revive HEMAP
• Restart Pennsylvania's HEMAP mortgage program
• Pennsylvania foreclosure filings rose 24 percent from January 2011
• Advocates See New Hope For Restoring Pa. Mortgage-Assistance Benefit
• $25 billion 'robo-signing' settlement reached with five banks
• Pennsylvania joins $25 billion joint state-federal settlement concerning "robo-signing" and other mortgage foreclosure abuses
• Research Brief: What if Pennsylvania Had Not Had HEMAP?
• Advocates hoping Corbett will restore funding for mortgage help
• Corbett urged to restart mortgage assistance program
• 80 Organizations Call on Corbett to Resume State Mortgage
• Price of Service Cuts: End to Mortgage Aid Nearly Cost Pennsylvania Woman Her Home
• Pa. Labor Groups Oppose Obama Foreclosure Plan
• Mortgage aid program stumbled from the start
• What went wrong with foreclosure aid programs?
• $1B homeowner program mainly benefited 3 states
• HEMAP Rally on Yahoo news
• "Occupy" protestors target Pa. governor
• Here's what the Wall Street protesters are angry about (weblink)
• $1B foreclosure aid program ends with $568 million unspent
• Obama jobless mortgage program to end half-used
• U.S. Mortgage-Aid Program Is Shutting Down, With Up to $500 Million Unspent
• Grassroots group calls for funding restoration for statewide foreclosure prevention program
• Activists Call For Home Mortgage Program To Be Re-Funded.
• Activists Ask Governor Corbett For More Mortgage Relief Money
• A cry for more mortgage help
• Program helps good people keep their homes
• Helping Unemployed Borrowers Meet Their Mortgage Payments
• NY Fed economists urge coordinated mortgage,
  unemployment aid
• Bridge Loans for Jobless Homeowners?
• 2 weeks left on program to help unemployed avoid foreclosure
• Phila. Project joins effort to restore Pa. mortgage assistance
• Inquirer Editorial: Don't stop helping struggling homeowners
• DN Editorial: House help dies: Pa. kills foreclosure loan program
• Obama jobless mortgage program to end half-used
• U.S. Mortgage-Aid Program Is Shutting Down, With Up to $500 Million Unspent
• Grassroots group calls for funding restoration for statewide foreclosure prevention program
• Activists Call For Home Mortgage Program To Be Re-Funded.
• Activists Ask Governor Corbett For More Mortgage Relief Money
• A cry for more mortgage help
• Program helps good people keep their homes
• Helping Unemployed Borrowers Meet Their Mortgage Payments
• NY Fed economists urge coordinated mortgage,
  unemployment aid
• Bridge Loans for Jobless Homeowners?
• 2 weeks left on program to help unemployed avoid foreclosure
• Phila. Project joins effort to restore Pa. mortgage assistance
• Inquirer Editorial: Don't stop helping struggling homeowners
• DN Editorial: House help dies: Pa. kills foreclosure loan program
• Study says Philadelphia's foreclosure diversion is working
• Curtis Jones: Pa. should resume funding for mortgage aid program
• Activists push to restore homeowner lifeline
• HEMAP Program Closed – PA homeowners are left without protection from foreclosure
• New Federal Program to Help Unemployed or Ill Homeowners Pay Their Mortgage
  
• Housing aid may be cut
• Lessons from the PA Homeowners Mortgage Assistance Program – a report from the New York Federal Reserve Bank (PDF)
• Who killed Pa.'s foreclosure-rescue program?
• PHFA - HUD's Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program (EHLP)
• New Federal Program to Help Unemployed and Sick Homeowners Pay Their Mortgages
• Advocates urge funds restored for mortgage relief
• Study says Philadelphia's foreclosure diversion is working
• Philadelphia Foreclosure Relief Program Finds Success
  As Homeowners Meet Lenders
• Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program (EHLP)
• Foreclosure Prevention Programs (updated)
• More money goes to Pa. home loan program
• Elmer Smith: Fattah, Casey swoop in to help families facing foreclosure
• Casey, Fattah Promote Foreclosure Prevention Program
• Federal program vows to fight foreclosures
• The foreclosure prevention program that works
• Another Fight in the Battle Against Philly Foreclosures
• HUD takes applications in five states for
  mortgage assistance program
• Homeowner funds headed Pa.'s way
• Troubled Philly borrowers get 90-day buffer
  after foreclosure sale
• Foreclosure Aid Fell Short, and Is Fading
• Inquirer Editorial: What's the rush?
• Homeowners' pleas not enough to stop sheriff sale
• Court order allowing homeowners to keep deeds to sold property for 90 days in order to qualify for EHLP (PDF)
• Home Foreclosure Protest At City Hall/HUD Today
• Delay sheriff's sales further, rally urges HUD
• Homeowners protest upcoming sheriff's sale (video)
• Philadelphia Home Owners Rally Against Sheriff Sales (video)
• Dozens Rally At Philadelphia City Hall Against Planned Foreclosure Sales
• Concern Over Delay in Program to Help Jobless Pay Mortgages
• Differing views of mortgage relief
• Foreclosure Follies
• Philadelphia Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program
• Foreclosure Protest Being Taken To DC
• Unemployed Homeowners: EHLP Is on the Way
• $1 billion in mortgage help to unemployed won't come until spring
• HUD Confronted on Foreclosure Relief Program
• Philly Residents Save Their Homes—For Now
• Would-be replacement for Philadelphia sheriff
  making changes already
• HUD: Emergency Homeowner Loan Program
• An early present: Judge puts hold on sheriff sales
• Phila. homeowners facing foreclosure get holiday reprieve
• HUD Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program (EHLP)
• Good news: Phila. lagging on foreclosures
• Elmer Smith: Mortgage help is coming, but not soon enough for some
• City Hall Rally Calls For Freeze On Foreclosures
• Protesting foreclosures in Philadelphia
• Homeowners In Jeopardy Call For Freeze
• All 50 States Start Inquiry Into Foreclosures
• US Lawmakers Tout New Help for Struggling Homeowners
• Casey, Fattah Highlight Benefits of New Emergency Mortgage Relief Law
• Unemployed homeowners to get extra foreclosure aid
• Fighting against foreclosures, with U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah & John Dodds
• Bank reform brings mortgage aid for the unemployed
• Philadelphia to launch scam-alert program on mortgage modifications
• Laid Off Homeowners Need Help to Prevent Foreclosures
• Foreclosure program falls short for jobless
• Velshi Reports: Saving the House
• Obama administration expands mortgage assistance
• White House offers plans to avert foreclosures
• Can’t make your mortgage? Get an emergency loan
• Pennsylvania deserves piece of mortgage-assistance pie
• Stemming the tide of foreclosures
• Advocates eye new plan for jobless borrowers
• More prime mortgages default in 3rd quarter
• Congressman Fattah Wins House Approval for Emergency Mortgage Relief Plan
• HUD’s Donovan: Administration Looking At Ways To Aid Jobless Homeowners
• Philadelphia Gives Homeowners a Way to Stay Put
• More foreclosure help needed from federal
  home-ownership program
• Congress votes for more aid to jobless, homebuyers
• MBA: Foreclosures, unemployment to peak next year
• Focus growing on keeping the jobless in their homes
• U.S. foreclosure filings up 5% in third quarter
• Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis: Loans to Jobless Homeowners
• Mortgage-modification program questioned, protested
• Small details sometimes hinder help on mortgages
• Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis
• Elijah Cummings: Recycle TARP Fund To Help Homeowners
• Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis
• Editorial: Foot-dragging by the banks
• Second wave of foreclosures possible
• Foreclosure filings rise as unemployment takes toll
• Rising unemployment accelerates foreclosure crisis
• One Year Anniversary of City's Foreclosure Prevention Program
• Much-admired city initiative saves 1,400 homes from foreclosure
• Foreslosure program still going strong
• Lost jobs forcing more out of homes
• No agreement on taking Philadelphia's mortgage
  program statewide
• Local Group Calls For More Mortgage Assistance in Pa.
• Unemployment Increase Continues to Propel Foreclosure Crisis
• Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP) and Help for the Unemployed
• Foreclosure Prevention and Unemployment funding sign-on letter for organizations
• Fattah seeks stimulus funds for soon-to-be foreclosed
• City leaders push HUD for mortgage funds
• Inquirer editorial: Home-grown help
• Mortgage modifications may not stem foreclosures, Fed economists say
• Gov. Ed Rendell Meets with Struggling Phila. Homeowners
• Pa. programs pay for success
• Federal Reserve Board: 5 tips for avoiding foreclosure scams
• PUP housing counselor featured on MSNBC story
• FACTBOX-U.S. mortgage modification plan eligibility
• Mortgage Help: The Government’s New Plan Explained
• Lee County, Florida -"Pay up or move out" - CBS video
• Philadelphia - "Let's Strike a Deal" CBS video
• Save Your Home Philly Hotline
• Obama foreclosure plan draws inspiration from Philadelphia
• Foreclosures: Interview with John Dodds (MyFox Philly)
• GPUAC Foreclosure Prevention Resource Guide
• For foreclosure-prevention help, just dial 215-334-HOME
• Philadelphia Shows the Way to Slow Foreclosures
• Interview on Radio Times about the Philadelphia Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program (audio clip)
• Pols praise mortgage program
• Testimony of John Dodds before the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Testimony of homeowner, Tania Harrigan, before the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Nation's economic repairs must include homeowners
• The HOPE for Homeowners (H4H) program
• Housing relief act takes effect
• Global crisis hinges on foreclosures
• Philadelphia Fighting Foreclosures Head-On
• Provisions of housing-mortgage relief bill
• Who qualifies for mortgage help and how to get it
• Philadelphians Getting Update On
  Foreclosure Diversion Plan
• Local Expert Tells Why Some Face Foreclosures
• Resets Peaking on Subprime Loans
• Cities fight foreclosures with unusual tactics
• US foreclosure filings surge 48 percent in May
• Homeowners offered relief in Philadelphia program
• City to help owners keep their homes
• Saving the house
• As mortgage noose tightened,
  these 3 slipped its grip
• Ahead: More rate hikes, more foreclosures
• 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 |
  See video
• Philadelphia Foreclosures |
  See Video
• 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 Care

Health Care Rally - July 2008
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• Fewer than half former adultBasic enrollees have signed up for alternative insurance
• COBRA health-insurance subsidy to end
• Highmark asks to raise 'last-resort' rates
• State health group wants more transparency for consumers
• Health care law's anniversary marked by debate at state Capitol
• Bad for their health
• A long, hard look at life after adultBasic
• Basic care: Corbett can get a better deal for the working poor
• Activists Stage Rally At Philadelphia Blue Cross Offices
• Advocates say rescue of state health insurance not enough
• New Pennsylvania governor likely to end low-cost health insurance for the poor
• DN Editorial: Health care: Bye-bye, safety net
• Thousands Losing Health Coverage Jan. 1
• Expiration date for adultBasic?
• Demonstrators seek extension of insurance program
• New Poll Undercuts GOP Claims of a Midterm Mandate
• New health law is a prescription for distortion
• Help us educate others on the benefits of health reform!
• New health insurance rules kick in this week
• First provisions of health-care overhaul rolling out
• Forum focuses on benefits of health care reform
• A small victory for health insurance protesters
• Protestors Demand Continuation of Adult Basic
• PHAN Update: Summary of High-Risk Pool Program in PA
• With adultBasic set to expire, where's the outrage?
• Unemployed face rise in health care
• COBRA Assistance: A Lifeline for America’s Unemployed (PDF)
• Federal "COBRA" Health Benefit Extension Law Expires
• 2010 Health Reform Conference Resources
• 5 Overblown Fears About Healthcare Reform
• For Consumers, Clarity on Health Care Changes
• House Passes Health-Care Bill
• Health overhaul: Immediate change, long term steps
• Thousands rally to support health-care reform in
  downtown Washington
• COBRA Extension FAQs
• 135-mile march ahead of the president's health care summit
• Annette John-Hall: Parade of anger over health-care mess
• Annette John-Hall: Un-American? Well, let's see . . .
• Health Insurer Profits Jumped 250% in Last Decade
• Activists hold vigil at Taylor Hospital
  See Univsion 65 coverage in Spanish
• Health-care rally to kick off march to Washington
• Health Care Spending Skyrockets and Shows No Signs of Tapering
• If Health Care Bill Passes, Some Changes Would Start Fast
• Senate Democrats Unite to Advance Key
  Health Care Reform Bill
• Vigil draws attention to heath care reform needs
• Vigil sends message on health care reform
• Crowd tells absent Holden it wants health care reform
• Study: Uninsured Trauma Victims Face Sky-High Death Rate
• House Vote on Affordable Health Care for America Act is scheduled for Saturday, Nov.7 - join us in phone banking
• The Defining Moment
• The House Health Reform Bill
• FAQs For Employees About COBRA Continuation Health Coverage
• One-Two Punch
• Young advocates push for health
• Health Care Reform Advocates Push Citizens to Get Involved
• Healthcare Reform Advocates Read Bill Aloud for 16 Hours
• Health care reform advocates spending day reading bill on Capitol steps
• The Next Step for Health-Care Reform
• Public Insurance Plan Remains an Option in Health Reform
• Poll: Support rebounding for health overhaul
• Over 100 rally in Jenkintown to support health care reform(with slides)
• Canvassers try to rally support for health reform
• Sestak health-care meeting a spoonful of sugar
• Right Wingers Wreak Havoc on Philadelphia Town Meeting
• Protesters: Health care ailing
• Dozens rally for health-care reform
• Activists Rally in South Philadelphia for Health Care Reform
• House bill would make health care a right
• House Democrats Unveil Landmark Health Care Legislation
• House Health Care Bill Taxes Millionaires
• Why We Need a Public Health Care Plan
• Bill to expand Pa. health insurance sparks debate
• Spread The Message:
  We're Not Scared of Real Health Care Reform
• In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health
• The Healthcare War is Now Official
• Why we need a Public Health Plan
  as part of Health Care Reform.
• Pennsylvania physicians should back plan to help uninsured
• Poll: Americans OK With More Government
  Health Care Influence
• Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
• Protest over Blue Cross premium increase
• Venom aimed at COBRA
• Fox 29 health care coverage 4/30/2009
• Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
• Democrats Agree on a Health Plan; Now Comes the Hard Part
• Prescription for Pennsylvania (State prescription price finder)
• Stimulus package changes COBRA
• FAQs For Employees About COBRA Continuation Health Coverage
• Pennsylvania’s health care debate (listen: WHYY mp3)
• Easing anxiety of health coverage
• Uninsured in Pa. over one million
• Unemployed? 4 Ways to Avoid COBRA's Bite
• COBRA Too Costly for Many Unemployed, Report Finds
• What Obama's Health Care Plan Means for You
• Health care information
• Gov. Rendell revises Executive Order; extends operation of PA Health Care Cost Containment Council.
• The Candidates' Health Plans
• Baucus adds to calls for health overhaul in '09
• With no insurance, broken arm becomes long ordeal
• NY Times Editorial: 29th on Infant Mortality
• Despite landmark bills, Pa. legislature has undone work
• Why did the Senate block health care reform?
• Inquirer Editorial: Pa. Health Care
• Lawmakers protect puppies but stall on health care
• No compromise on Pa. health coverage expansion
• Rendell says he will agree to scaled-back
  health care plan
• Rendell makes push on health care for uninsured
• Rendell revises health insurance proposal again
• Group seeks health-care reform
• Seniors in Poor Areas More Likely to Die After Surgery
• Testimony of John Dodds before the House Policy Committee (PDF)
• Health care out of reach for many
• Health Care Unfinished Business
• Under the PA Access to Basic Care Program
• Dying for Coverage report (pdf)
• URGENT – Health Reform Action Alert
• Health care reform this fall!
• Pennsylvania Health-Care Reform
• State fails to address health care
• Health-care advocates try to get foot in door
• Group: Walk in their shoes
• Rendell: Bill must increase insured
• Once again, prognosis for Pa. health-care
  progress is grim
• Ill will in Senate health plan
• To fix health care, focus on uninsured
• Second opinion: The Senate health plan is
  built on optimism
• Pennsylvania health coverage by county (pdf)
• Gov. Rendell says PA ABC will help low-wage small businesses pay for employee health coverage.
• Provide health coverage for state's working poor
• Real Reform in Health Care for All Pennsylvanians
• 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

Commuter Options Update

• March 2008

Commuter Options articles

• Voices of workers riding Commuter Options vans (KWY interview)
• Getting city residents to jobs in the suburbs
• City-to-burbs commuter service grows
• What Business Can Do
• This Ride Works
• 5 bucks pays way to Bucks
• Van pools ease a reverse commute

Jobs and the Recession

• EXPANDING MEDICAID WOULD ADD 41,000 NEW PA JOBS
• Local Advocacy Groups Sound Alarm About Impending Federal Budget Cuts
• U.S. Labor secretary talks to Philly minimum-wage workers about a raise
• Congress approves ‘fiscal cliff’ measure
• Federal cuts would hit the most fragile
• Inquirer Editorial: Don't end jobless benefits
• Obama: Unemployment Insurance Must Be Part Of Fiscal Cliff Deal
• Advocates Renew Push to Keep Unemployment Benefits
• Republicans Balk at Short-Term Stimulus in Obama Plan
• Averting fiscal cliff elusive as lawmakers return to talk of compromise
• Jobless in Pa., N.J., would be hurt by plunge off fiscal cliff
• 2 million could lose unemployment benefits unless Congress extends program
• Unemployed decry jammed phone lines
• Monica Yant Kinney: The phone is rarely picked up at Penna. unemployment office
• Protest rally for elimination of general assistance
• What I Learned From A Year Of Unemployment
• In Bipartisan Compromise, Congress Revamps Unemployment Benefits
• Conference Agreement Far Better for Unemployed Workers and UI System Than Original House Bill
• Congress approves payroll tax cut
• Local Experts See Positives In Unemployment Numbers
• House G.O.P. Leaders Agree to Extension of Payroll Tax Cut
• Labor to launch attacks on Republicans in benefits fight
• Philadelphia Jobs Rally Takes On Protest Flavor As Congress Dithers on Benefits
• House rejects payroll tax cut, jobless benefits
• NPR Poll Shows Long-Term Unemployed Desperate for Work
• Targeting the Unemployed
• Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits
• Rising unemployment rate means extended benefits for jobless Pennsylvanians
• Unemployment Extension: House Democrats Introduce Bill To Preserve Benefits Through Next Year
• ’Occupy’ participants in Philly say they really want work
• Millions to lose unemployment benefits if Congress doesn't act
• A job is becoming a dim memory for many unemployed
• Job Seekers Have A New Worry: Unemployment Bias
• A struggle for worth: Race wealth divide widens
• Click here: 99ers: The Real Lives of the Long-Term Jobless - Video - TIME.com
• Area Expert Says Joblessness Is Swelling Nation’s Poverty Rolls
• NY Fed economists urge coordinated mortgage,
  unemployment aid
• U.S. job growth grinds to a halt in August
• Residents, groups discuss job outlook
• HEMAP Program Closed – PA homeowners are left without protection from foreclosure
• Job Clubs: Feds Encourage Peer Support For The Jobless
• Are Jobless Benefits Keeping the Unemployed Complacent (and Invisible)?
• Helping Unemployed Borrowers Meet Their Mortgage Payments
• Scammers Pray On The Unemployed
• Unemployment benefit applications stuck above 400K
• Jobs to lag locally till late 2013, new study says
• Pennsylvania Unemployment Deal Will Avert Benefits Cutoff For 45,000
• For Philly's male workers, no jobs now ... and maybe never again
• Reducing Pennsylvania's Unemployment Insurance ‘A Fairness Thing,’ GOP Lawmaker Says
• Bills seek to overhaul Pa. unemployment trust fund
• Decline of the working man
• No jobs for more than three out of four unemployed workers
• Another Fight in the Battle Against Philly Foreclosures
• Homeowner funds headed Pa.'s way
• Concern Over Delay in Program to Help Jobless Pay Mortgages
• Feds Investigate Reports Of Discrimination Against Unemployed
• Unemployed ‘99ers’ take on the Capitol
• Unemployed Homeowners: EHLP Is on the Way
• $1 billion in mortgage help to unemployed won't come until spring
• Phila. homeowners facing foreclosure get holiday reprieve
• Philly Anti-Jobless Group Gives Holiday Gifts to Affected Kids
• Fewer People Apply For Unemployment Benefits
• Unemployed vent in Center City, ask Washington for help
• Obama signs tax deal into law
• Center of Attention
• Read this shirt
• In Tax Plan, a Boost for Jobs
• Voting for an Odious Tax Deal
• Ask An Expert: How to Explain What You Have Been Doing Since You Lost Your Job
• Increased jobless rate casts benefits fight in new light
• Local Program For Long-Term Unemployed
• Obama Seeking Aid for Jobless in Deal on Tax Cuts
• Jobless benefits begin drying up
• Forecast dire if jobless benefits cut
• Some unemployment benefits may end soon
• Unemployment extension must be granted; it's the right thing to do and it makes economic sense
• Unemployed March in Washington for Extended Benefits
• Philly's jobless brace for benefit cuts
• Will Congress Let Jobless Benefits Expire Four Weeks Before Christmas?
• If Congress Fails to Act: Fact Sheet on the Cut-Off of Federal Unemployment Benefits
• DN Editorial: Unemployment benefits should be extended
• Jobless hold vigil in Philadelphia as phaseout of benefits looms
• Local Woman, 60, Struggles to Find Work
• House fails to extend unemployment benefits
• Jobless-Benefits Extension Blocked in House as Republicans Balk Over Cost
• Voters Don't Want Congress To Cut Extended Unemployment Benefits: Poll
• Scarier Prospects Post-Election for the Long-Term Unemployed
• Stimulus jobs ending
• 'Way To Work' Program Ending in Philly
• Census Finds Record Gap Between Rich and Poor
• Keep them on the job
• Looking at Today’s Poverty Numbers
• Pleading with Congress to extend "Way to Work"
• Last-Minute Lobbying Drive To Save Jobs Created By Welfare To Work Program
• Congress, extend the TANF Emergency Fund! video
• Save Jobs / Extend TANF video
• Philadelphians Head to DC to Lobby for Jobs Fund
• Way To Work Program Set to Expire
• Successes of Pa.'s subsidized-jobs program
• Supporters Urge More Funding for “Way to Work” Program
• Businesses and employees ask for extension
• Elmer Smith: Will life-changing jobs program get a chance to live on?
• ‘Way To Work’ Program Ending In Philly
• A way to work
• Unemployed homeowners to get extra foreclosure aid
• Editorial: Unemployed, not lazy
• Read this shirt
• Bank reform brings mortgage aid for the unemployed
• Extension To Unemployment Benefits A Lifeline (video)
• Unemployment Extension Bill Clears Hurdle, Standoff Likely Over Until November
• Subsidized jobs program a boon to area employers
• Job Subsidies Also Provide Help to Private Sector
• Senate advances unemployment extension bill
• Philadelphia-area jobless look to this week's Senate vote on extending benefits
• Symbols of the Recession
• A Jobs Program That Works
• Unemployment Extension Fails: Senate Rejects Jobless Benefits 58-38
• Democrats mulling stand-alone jobless aid
• Congress takes four-day break as unemployed wait to find out if federal benefit program will be extended
• Philadelphia rally targets bill to extend jobless benefits
• Unemployed people rally in Philadelphia
• Unemployed face rise in health care
• Federal "COBRA" Health Benefit Extension Law Expires
• House votes to extend jobless benefits; Senate takes holiday
• Philadelphia to get 5,000 jobs from stimulus
• Pennsylvania races clock to find 20,000 jobs
• New Program In PA Aims To Help Unemployed
• Obama signs $18 billion jobless benefits bill
• Senators End Impasse on Extending Jobless Aid
• Foreclosure program falls short for jobless
• Philadelphia unemployment rate inches up to 11.2%
• Senate Adjourns Without Passing Unemployment Extension
• Breaking Out of Long-Term Unemployment
• Can’t make your mortgage? Get an emergency loan
• House Adopts $15 Billion Plan to Spur Job Creation
• Senator Relents, and Jobless Bill Passes
• Bunning blocks aid extension
• Pa. to fund jobs with federal stimulus money
• Senate Majority Leader Reid seeks extension of jobless aid
• Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
• You just have to ask
• Are the Rich Getting Richer? The Data Say Yes
• Where are stimulus funds for jobs?
• Pa., N.J. have millions in stimulus aid for jobs
• Long-term unemployment crisis deepens in January
• Stemming the tide of foreclosures
• Advocates eye new plan for jobless borrowers
• Senate OKs filing extension for jobless
• Seeds of a Movement for the Unemployed
• Elmer Smith: At employment summit, the 10-percenters call for some 'good jobs'
• Local Unemployed Men, Women Head To D.C.
• A call to action for private sector
• We want jobs! Demonstrate Dec. 3, 11:30, San Francisco Federal Bldg
• Jobless Benefits Will Expire Unless Congress Acts
• Extension of jobless benefits won't help many
• Congress votes for more aid to jobless, homebuyers
• Jobless-benefit addition advances
• One-Two Punch
• MBA: Foreclosures, unemployment to peak next year
• U.S. foreclosure filings up 5% in third quarter
• Focus growing on keeping the jobless in their homes
• Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis: Loans to Jobless Homeowners
• Senate Democrats agree to extend jobless benefits
• The Truth About Jobs That No One Wants to Tell You
• Buzzwords That Can Damage Your Resume
• Get the Edge: Using Buzzwords in Your Resume
• U.S. Unemployment Now Lasts Longer Than Benefits:
  Chart of Day
• Senate Finance Committee Chairman Introduces Legislation to Extend Jobless Benefits to All States
• Second Annual Race for Jobs - Results
• U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio
• Proposed LIHEAP Cuts
• Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis
• Channel 6 in the PUP offices as 247,000 more Americans join jobless rolls - includes video of PUP
• Senate OKs bill to boost funding for food stamps
• Seven-Week Benefits Reprieve for Pa.'s Unemployed
• Pa. gov to sign bill to extend jobless benefits
• Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out
• Foreclosure filings rise as unemployment takes toll
• Rising unemployment accelerates foreclosure crisis
• Local Group Calls For More Mortgage Assistance in Pa.
• Pa. plots strategy for
  unemployment fund
• Unemployment Increase Continues to Propel Foreclosure Crisis
• Venom aimed at COBRA
• US President Obama Vows To Retrain Unemployed In New Program
• 'Job sprawl' threatens urban poor, study says
• Delco Church Helps Community Members Find Work
• Trying to Find a Job (read story)
• Trying to Find a Job (see 6 ABC video)
• Support Groups for Unemployed (read story)
• Support Groups for Unemployed (see CBS 3 report)
• 10 Vital Résumé Fixes
• Video:Coping with the recession (Action News)
• 598,000 U.S. jobs lost in January
• Layoffs Hitting Harder
• For Growing Ranks of the White-Collar Jobless, Support With a Touch of the Spur
• What about the safety net?
• COBRA Too Costly for Many Unemployed, Report Finds
• Unemployed? 4 Ways to Avoid COBRA's Bite
• Jobless, and lots of them, on Obama's side
• Obama Considers Major Expansion in Aid to Jobless
• Will your credit card company forgive 70% of what you owe?
• Job Coach Has Advice Tuesday
• Job growth at the unemployment office
• 3 Tips for Surviving a Layoff
• Nov. job cuts highest in 34 years
• Tips for Finding Employment in Hard Times
• Jobless claims on the rise
• Blueprint for Recovery and Reform (pdf)
• NELP applauds Senate action providing relief to 2 million jobless workers
• Bush signs jobless benefits extension
• Senate sends Bush expanded jobless benefits bill
• Health Care as Stimulus: The Best Way to Spend Big Bucks
• Labor Department Reports Show Major Increase in State Unemployment
• Oct. 2008 - House Passes Unemployment Benefits Extension
• August 30, 2008 Race For Jobs Results
• 84,000 jobs cut in Aug.; jobless rate hits 5-year high of 6.1%
• Finding job can be hard thing to do
• Bush signs extension of unemployment benefits
• House OKs unemployment benefits extension
• Unemployment Rate Jumps to 5.5 Percent
• U.S. Senate passes expanded jobless benefits
• House votes for aid to unemployed workers
• House Votes to Extend Jobless Benefits
• Democratic leaders may add unemployment benefits to war bill
• Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless

Spotlight On PUP

Rally Friday, June 29
See Rally Photos

Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program

April 1, 2008 protest against foreclosures

January 29, 2008 testimony on the housing crisis

October 2, 2007 Harrisburg Rally

Photos of the legislative breakfast for Prescription for Pennsylvania

Watch the PUP Video

Pup Picnic... Fun for All!(slides)

Health Centers

• PUP Health Committee wins Increase in City Health Center Staffing
• PUP publishes new report on City Health Centers

Health Center rally