Philadelphia Unemployment Project

(Demonstrators urge Gov. Tom Corbett to accept Medicaid expansion in Pennsylvania. Credit: Cherri Gregg)

Center City Demonstrators Urge Corbett To Accept Medicaid Expansion in Pa.

“We want to take that big abstract number — 700,000 — and show these are real faces, these are real lives,” said one demonstration leader.

2013/06/04

(John Dodds, in his PUP office, with Ceiyanni. Credit: Cherri Gregg)

John and Evelyn Dodds, Helping the Unemployed While Caring for a Newborn

John and Evelyn Dodds run the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, and three months ago took on a new role: temporary guardians to a newborn baby girl.

2013/04/29

(Marchers call on Gov. Corbett to accept federal funding for Medicaid expansion. Credit: Cherri Gregg)

Marchers Urge Corbett To Accept Federal Funds to Expand Medicaid

About 100 protesters marched from Philadelphia City Hall to Corbett’s regional office at Broad and Walnut Streets, demanding that he agree to expand Medicaid to cover an additional 700,000 uninsured Pennsylvanians.

2013/04/18

(Unemployed workers look through help-wanted ads in a Labor Department field office. File photo by Getty Images)

Philadelphia Unemployment Rate Lagging Behind National Recovery

“The recession started over five years ago, and we still are not anywhere near recovered,” says John Dodds, executive director of the Philadelphia Unemployment Project.

2013/04/05

Unemployed Will Get Socked by Federal Sequester, Phila. Jobless Advocate Warns

Benefits to the long-term unemployed will be cut by 9.4 percent, beginning next week.

2013/03/01

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Local Advocacy Groups Sound Alarm About Impending Federal Budget Cuts

You can call them “Fiscal Cliff II” or “sequestration” or anything else ominous, but to the groups who serve the unemployed and those on medical assistance, they’re just plain bad news.

2013/02/20

Sheriff Retracts Speech, Withdraws Fee Hike

Call it the case of the disappearing speech: Philadelphia Sheriff Jewell Williams suddenly withdrew his prepared testimony to City Council this past week in the face of opposition from activists to a proposed $500 fee increase.

2012/04/28

MoveOn.org members upset over housing crisis protest outside of 'Obama For America' office in Center City (credit: Cherri Gregg)

Philadelphia ‘MoveOn’ Members Upset Over Housing Crisis Protest Outside ‘Obama For America’ Office

Members from local chapter of MoveOn.org rallied outside of the Obama for America office at 15th and Market Streets to send a message to the President about the housing crisis.

2012/03/15

(A job fair last week in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/ Getty Images)

In Bipartisan Compromise, Congress Revamps Unemployment Benefits

Millions of Americans will continue to receive long-term unemployment benefits under legislation approved Friday in Congress, but the scope of the program is being scaled back to cover fewer people by the end of the year.

2012/02/17

Local Experts See Positives In Unemployment Numbers

The just-released Federal Unemployment Report indicates more people are going back to work. The unemployment rate fell to 8.5% from an adjusted 8.7% from the month before. The news seems good, but is it really good news for those who are unemployed in the Delaware Valley?

2012/01/06