WYNCOTE — The U.S. Postal Service office on Glenside Avenue served as a backdrop Tuesday for two congressional representatives to announce their unwavering support for the post office amid national tensions surrounding funding for the agency. “We’re here in solidarity with the postal service,” said U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-4th Dist., which covers most of […]

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A US congressman joined a protest to protect the US Postal Service on Tuesday. This comes as the service is under scrutiny because of its potential impact on November’s election. Democratic US Representative Dwight Evans visited the Green Street Post Office in Germantown, where neighbors sounded off over their concerns with the […]

U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA) recently hosted a virtual roundtable to discuss the effects of African trade policy on the Philadelphia region, how to increase trade between Philadelphia and Africa, and why Philadelphia-Africa business linkages are important. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Philadelphia area business leaders, Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ), and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), […]

Philadelphia’s three representatives in the U.S. House gathered Wednesday at Madison War Memorial Park in Old City to call for emergency funds for the U.S. Postal Service. Democrats Brendan Boyle, Dwight Evans, and Mary Gay Scanlon were joined by City Commissioners Lisa Deeley and Omar Sabir and postal workers’ union members to demand immediate federal […]

U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans is calling for the next round of stimulus funding to focus on hard-hit small businesses, particularly Black and Latino-owned businesses. Evans, a Democrat from Pennsylvania and vice chair of the House Small Business Committee, told the Philadelphia Business Journal his immediate focus is ensuring that the remaining Paycheck Protection Program funding […]

In one of the first damage reports from the early George Floyd protests in Philadelphia and other cities, owners of the Walgreens chain told investors they are out $75 million for uninsured “store damage and inventory losses as a result of looting in the U.S. during May 2020.” The analysis arrived as city business insurance […]

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA) recently introduced bicameral legislation that would assist small-business owners whose establishments were damaged by civil unrest following the death of George Floyd. The Helping Entrepreneurs Access Loans Act would appropriate $80 million for 75 percent forgivable physical disaster business loans. To qualify, businesses must […]

Originally posted here PHILADELPHIA, PA — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and U.S. Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA 3rd) are launching a bicameral, bipartisan effort to help small businesses that were damaged or destroyed during recent nationwide incidents of civil unrest related to the death of George Floyd. The Toomey-Evans Helping Entrepreneurs Access Loans (HEAL) Act […]