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PHILADELPHIA -- Anticipating a busy summer, airport workers in Pennsylvania continue their fight for better wages and health insurance, and demand what they say would be a fair contract from American Airlines and other carriers. Philadelphia International Airport contract workers and supporters rallied this week in support of a prevailing wage bill being debated by the city council, which would change a city agreement with air carriers, to boost hourly wages to just over $15, create a paid-leave standard, and provide an hourly wage supplement for healthcare. Michelle Richards, an airport whe...

WHYY By A Philadelphia parking garage at 8th and Chestnut streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY) City Councilmember Cherelle Parker introduced a bill Thursday that would dramatically lower Philadelphia’s parking tax rate. The proposed legislation would cut the levy on revenues paid at parking lots and garages by nearly a third –– from 25% to 17% –– and would take effect in July. Parker says the reduction is a benefit for both parking industry leaders and their employees. “The goal of lowering this tax rate is for some of the benefits to flow directly to the parking workers either by bringing ba...

Just launched: One Lens: Sharing Our Common Views — a statewide collaborative visual and storytelling project to document Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 experience. Just launched: One Lens: Sharing Our Common Views — a statewide collaborative visual and storytelling project to document Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 experience. × COVID UPDATE: 4.3 million doses of vaccine have been administered across PA. See if you qualify and find appointments. × February 04, 2021 Yesterday, Governor Tom Wolf delivered his budget address for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. The governo...

>> tucker: bishop dwayne royster is a political activist and a self-described social change agent and agitator. at a recent rally he said thatat president trump's recently released budget proposal is a plot for "ethnic cleansing." watch. >> this budget, if i can be honest with you, it's an attempt to implement ethnic cleansing in this nation from people of color, also, for whom thee services being caught will be impacted the most. president trump is a surrogate,u using dog whistle language to speak about race in negative ways and create fear in the hearts of americans. here is their reality. m...

america, designing customized, individual, and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting. >> welcome! i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. religious groups were right in the middle of this week's budget battle in washington. as president obama and congressional leaders negotiated funding for this fiscal year, one of the sticking points was whether to cut taxpayer money for planned parenthood. liberal people of faith were among those who rallied in support of continued funding for planned parenthood an...