PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Despite President Trump’s signing of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package Sunday, Congressional lawmakers continue to battle over whether the bill goes far enough. The House of Representatives voted Monday evening to pass the bill to increase the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000. The bill now heads to the Senate. The amended […]

by Jonathan Tamari WASHINGTON — Democrats will soon get what they’ve long dreamed of: President Donald Trump will leave the White House. But even once President-elect Joe Biden takes office next month, many of their other hopes face extremely difficult roads to reality. Biden will come to power with the smallest House majority in modern history, and will […]

By Ganesh Setty, CNN For 843 days, Oneita and Clive Thompson took sanctuary in two Philadelphia churches to escape Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Daily life was constrained within the humble walls of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, and later the Tabernacle United Church downtown. They ate, bathed, and slept cloistered inside the churches, […]

by Michael Klein Conor Murphy has left the general manager’s post at Reading Terminal Market, six months after signing on at the outset of the pandemic. Describing the departure blandly as “parted ways,” the nonprofit market’s board issued a statement Thursday night praising Murphy as “a visionary and a creative talent,” while acknowledging that “as […]

by Karen Bojar Philadelphia NOW, Pennsylvania NOW and the Philadelphia Commission for Women sponsored a well-attended Dec. 6 virtual Town Hall on HB 40, which would establish a U.S. congressional commission to study and develop proposals for reparations for African-Americans. Reparations are sometime seen as a political impossibility, but as Philadelphia NOW President Vanessa Fields […]

By Lauren Mayk Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey called another round of direct payments to Americans “about the least efficient way you can help people and help the economy” – but also said the measure alone wouldn’t prevent him from voting for a coronavirus relief bill. “That is not in and of itself a complete deal […]

A proposed federal spending bill — to which a Covid-19 relief package could be added — is targeted for release as soon as Tuesday. A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday will release a two-part proposal with $908 billion in assistance for the pandemic-hit economy. The legislative language of the relief package will be unveiled […]

House lawmakers left Washington on Friday for Thanksgiving recess with no sign of progress on a new coronavirus relief package. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and President-elect Joe Biden were meeting in Wilmington, Del., later Friday to talk about their agenda. Publicly, their position has been that Republicans ought to drop […]

From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you. There aren’t enough words to express my gratitude for your support and dedication to our grassroots campaign. Whether you donated, helped get out the vote, or talked to friends and family about what’s at stake — this victory was possible because of you. While […]

By Jamyra Perry PHILADELPHIA — Almost a dozen of Philadelphia’s Black civic, religious, business and political leaders gathered on a Zoom call Friday afternoon in response to the economic impact of looting and rioting following the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. Congressman Dwight Evans lead the discussion with state Sen. Vincent Hughes, Urban League of […]