Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/08/17/stop-debt-trap/#.V7So5fkrIdU By Lecia Imbery August 17, 2016 The statistics around payday and car title loans are scary: The loans come with interest rates of 300-400 percent on average. The average payday loan customer who borrows $400 for a loan … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/16/nasa-study-nails-fracking-source-massive-methane-hot-spot Published on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 by Common Dreams The 2,500-square mile plume is said to be the largest concentration of the potent greenhouse gas in the country By Lauren McCauley, staff writer This map shows anomalous … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/16/aetnas-greed-proves-medicare-all-best-solution Published on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 by Common Dreams Sen. Elizabeth Warren skewers insurance giant for Obamacare withdrawal, saying: ‘The health of the American people should not be used as bargaining chips’ By Lauren McCauley, staff writer … Continued
Posted at https://cliniclegal.org/diapersindetention Sign up form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckcA0gHtUgErAwxm630_yo7K6BUYjGUxpMl2yLQVXELFoH2w/viewform Family detention is the incarceration of asylum-seeking mothers and children, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. There are three such facilities in the United States, in Berks County, Pennsylvania; Karnes City … Continued
By: David Randall and Nichola Groom Updated: August 10, 2016 NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seeking a yard for her two dogs and proximity to her new government job, Alison Owen set out to buy a home this spring in the … Continued
From Project H.O.M.E. (http://www.projecthome.org): Project HOME has been working with the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, the Housing Alliance of PA, and the PA Health Law Project, to launch the Housing as Health Coalition to bring together the health and housing … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-08-16/environment/anti-fracking-advocates-organizing-parents/a53577-1 August 16, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window People living near fracked gas wells are four times more likely to experience an asthma attack. (Kelly/ProtectOurChildren.org) PHILADELPHIA – A coalition of … Continued
From GreenFaith (http://greenfaith.org): On September 1 Christians around the world are coming together to pray for God’s creation, and to observe the Season of Creation between that day and October 4 – the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Will … Continued
Check out the recently released Community Health Explorer at http://cityofphiladelphia.github.io/community-health-explorer/. Learn more at the blogpost on the tool: https://alpha.phila.gov/posts/open-data-digital-transformation/2016-08-10-citys-new-digital-resource-on-public-health/. Download the data for your own analysis: https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/community-health-assessment
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/to-address-the-effects-of-poverty-in-schools-we-must-see-and-accurately-measure-it/ If you take a driving vacation and you use a laptop instead of a smartphone, you soon learn that the best place to find Wi-Fi in little towns is in the parking lot of the public library. … Continued