Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America is an ongoing public media reporting initiative. We are taking an in-depth look at the contemporary state of the American Dream in Pennsylvania: the changing nature of jobs, the vanishing middle class, wage disparity, and economic opportunity.
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What’s poverty look like in 2024?; What organizations are doing to help?
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Rick Steves Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala
Hunger and Hope centers the stories of local farmers, small business owners, social justice advocates, and others who are finding innovative ways to pull their families and communities out of poverty.
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Brandon Thibodeaux for NPR
Poverty is a growing global concern, here’s a resource to help those experiencing it
Robin Rohrbaugh, president of the Community Progress Council joined us on Tuesday’s Smart Talk to discuss the poverty crises and resources to support families on their path toward self-sufficiency.
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Emma Lee
Single women with children struggle with poverty, here’s what can help change their circumstances
Christina Duncan, Executive Director at Milagro House and Stacie Blake, CEO of the YWCA Lancaster joined us on Tuesday’s Smart Talk to discuss the factors that are keeping women in these circumstances, resolutions to get them out of those circumstances, and an upcoming Milagro House event that addresses these issues.
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Who are the squeegee workers and are they a problem?
Squeegee workers, also known as squeegee kids, mostly teenagers from low-income neighborhoods who clean drivers’ windshields at intersections for money.
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Scott Heins
Pennsylvania’s food stamp enrollment is climbing toward levels not seen since the early pandemic
More than 1,891,000 Pennsylvanians are now enrolled in the state’s food stamp program; approaching the record-setting enrollment levels of the early months of the pandemic.
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Evan Vucci
Families are in distress after the first month without the expanded child tax credit
The program, which began in July 2021, included an increase in payments that were sent out monthly and broadened the number of families who were eligible. More than 36 million families in the U.S. were receiving payments that ranged from $250 to $300 per child.
By Deepa Shivaram/NPR
