Governor Tom Wolf received praise for several actions he announced last week to create meaningful reform to law enforcement and other areas to end injustice and systemic racism. Several of the actions, which include strengthening oversight, training, and accountability, are based on the 21st Century Policing Task Force, created in 2015 under President Barack Obama. […]

Washington, DC – Representative Mikie Sherrill joined Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Donald Beyer (VA-08), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), and more than 120 House Members in demanding answers from Attorney General William Barr about Department of Justice (DOJ)’s deployment of unidentifiable law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. amid the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George […]

America needs to correct the deep-seated racism that’s caused widespread unrest and left Philadelphia’s neighborhoods in a state of devastation, Gov. Tom Wolf said during a visit to the city on Monday. “I spent today here in Philadelphia and (saw) just so many sad scenes — food stores that had been gutted, pharmacies that’d been […]

Historic congressional hearing examines the pandemic’s disparate racial and ethnic impacts WASHINGTON— The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately harmed communities of color, laying bare the systemic racial disparities across the United States, experts told House lawmakers this week. Early evidence suggests there are elevated rates of infection and death from COVID-19 in African-American populations and other […]

On May 12, Reps. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (Pa.-15) and Dwight Evans (Pa.-03) introduced the “Assistance and Gratitude for Coronavirus Heroes in Agribusiness who are Invaluable to the Nation,” or the AG CHAIN Act. The bill is an extension of the previously introduced GROCER Act. The bill would provide a federal tax holiday and a payroll […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is increasingly looking like an imperfect microcosm of the challenges that all Americans face in keeping the coronavirus at bay as huge swaths of the nation move to reopen. Two aides who work in the White House complex are known to have tested positive in the past week for […]

Temple University Hospital received $50 million in the latest round of relief funds under the federal coronavirus economic rescue package, twice as much as it received in last month’s first round of aid to hospitals and other medical providers nationwide. The difference? The $12 billion distributed last week is for 395 hospitals that treated 100 […]

Congressman Dwight Evans (D-Phila.) is urging Gov. Tom Wolf and Mayor Jim Kenney to include the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium as part of a coordinated City and State strategy to reach the highly vulnerable African American community. Evans sent a letter to Wolf and Kenney urging the consortium be included and outlining his concerns. Councilman […]

By Alan K. Ota · April 27, 2020, 5:38 PM EDT Lawmakers in both parties are rallying behind new tax incentives to reward first responders, health care providers and other key workers as part of a new relief package aimed at ensuring delivery of essential goods and services during the COVID-19 pandemic. House Speaker Nancy […]