Vice President Harris, will remind listeners that in a span of 100 days, the U.S. distribution and administration of vaccines saved lives, helped the elderly hug their loved ones again, put millions of students in classrooms along with help from governors and mayors, and made it possible for families to recover some financial equilibrium with direct payments from Uncle Sam.
Next up on the president’s to-do list: enactment of a $2.3 trillion infrastructure and green jobs plan in the next few months, and progress this year on a separate proposal that Biden calls the American Families Plan.
The American Families’ Plan would cost about $1.5 trillion, offset by half a dozen proposed tax hikes on high-income Americans and investors, according to early reports and White House information.
Lawmaker’s ‘Level Up’ bill takes aim at Pa.’s education inequity in Lehigh Valley, elsewhere
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State Rep. Mike Schlossberg’s wife teaches in a building built in 1871, when the Civil War “was just that thing that ended a couple years ago,” the Democratic representative from Allentown joked. Her only form of air-conditioning is opening a window that sometimes doesn’t open.
Buildings in poor shape are usually a result of poorly funded school districts, a description that fits the Allentown School District, where Schlossberg’s wife teaches. In fact, it’s one of the 100 most underfunded Pennsylvania school districts, something Schlossberg is working to change.
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Wednesday marks one year since Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw took the helm of the Philadelphia Police Department the first woman of color to do so.
To mark Outlaw’s first year, influential Black women including members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Links. Inc. gathered virtually Wednesday to show their support for Philly’s top cop.
“I stand with her as a member of the Black clergy,” said Rev. Lorina Marshall-Blake. “As a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, I stand with her, and as a part of this sister circle I’m standing right here with her.”
White people are getting vaccinated at higher rates than Black and Latino Americans
Black and Latino Americans are receiving the Covid-19 vaccine at significantly lower rates than White people a disparity that health advocates blame on the federal government and hospitals not prioritizing equitable access.
A CNN analysis of data from 14 states found vaccine coverage is twice as high among White people on average than it is among Black and Latino people. The analysis found that on average, more than 4% of the White population has received a Covid-19 vaccine, about 2.3 times higher than the Black population (1.9% covered) and 2.6 times higher than the Hispanic population (1.8% covered).
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) A day after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, which cost one Trump supporter her life, prominent Black leaders in Philadelphia are ringing the alarm on white supremacy and the country s double standard. We all know had that been Black protestors and people even handling their business, we would be sitting here with so many deaths today, so many injuries, President of Urban League of Philadelphia Andrea Custis said.
There s a big difference from the look of Washington, D.C. before a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest this summer.
Even those on the opposite side of the political spectrum, like Republican Congressman Conor Lamb, called out the stark contrast to yesterday s riots.