Recession &
Support for Workers

Information Online:
Unemployment Compensation &
Filing bi weekly claims

Click here: 99ers: The Real Lives of the Long-Term Jobless - Video - TIME.com

Click for Benefits for Laid Off Workers

Click here: Here To Help

Help for those whose benefits are exhausted

New Links:

• Statement of Tracy Mulvehill calling for a continuation of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program
• Status of Extended Benefits in 2013

Other links

• "Surviving the Recession" Benefits for laid off workers (PDF)
• Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Information
• Some facts on Unemployment Benefits in Pennsylvania
• Slides of the Dec. 3 Jobs Summit
• Free Services for the Unemployed
• Laid Off & Left Out: America's Workers Deserve Better (information on extended benefits)

Press coverage:

• Unemployment Benefit Cut Adds to Drag on U.S. Spending: Economy
• Philadelphia Unemployment Rate Lagging Behind National Recovery
• Rich getting richer, everyone else poorer
• Study: Philly leads nation in 'deep-poverty' residents
• U.S. and PA's economic recovery haunted by faces of the unemployed
• Jobless to lose benefits to budget cuts (CNN video)
• Pa. Labor Department downplays federal criticism over unemployment benefit delays
• Unemployed Will Get Socked by Federal Sequester, Phila. Jobless Advocate Warns
• Raise That Wage

Read more press coverage

Help for Mortgage Foreclosure

Call the Unemployment Information Center at
215-557-0822 for help if you are behind on your mortgage. Our housing counselors may be able to help you.

Information on foreclosure prevention

Press Releases

• 80 Organizations Call on Corbett to Resume State Mortgage
  2/1/2012

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Top News

• Unemployment Benefit Cut Adds to Drag on U.S. Spending: Economy
• John and Evelyn Dodds, Helping the Unemployed While Caring for a Newborn
• Marchers Urge Corbett To Accept Federal Funds to Expand Medicaid
• Philadelphia Unemployment Rate Lagging Behind National Recovery
• Rich getting richer, everyone else poorer
• Study: Philly leads nation in 'deep-poverty' residents
• U.S. and PA's economic recovery haunted by faces of the unemployed
• Philadelphia City Council wants delinquents on payment plans
• Jobless to lose benefits to budget cuts (CNN video)
• Pa. court: Reinstate health-care funding for the poor
• Pa. Labor Department downplays federal criticism over unemployment benefit delays

PUP's voter registration team who registered 3,899 voters in
21/2 months in a great grass roots campaign.

• Unemployed Will Get Socked by Federal Sequester, Phila. Jobless Advocate Warns
• EXPANDING MEDICAID WOULD ADD 41,000 NEW PA JOBS
• Raise That Wage

• Homeowners offered relief in Philadelphia program

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Housing

Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis
Loans to Jobless Homeowners

PDF | Web Page

• Philadelphia City Council wants delinquents on payment plans
• The Foreclosure Wave That Wasn't
• Penna. resumes mortgage-rescue operations
• State foreclosure prevention program retunrs

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Link to Pennsylvania's Here To Help Web site

FAQs on avoiding foreclosure (links to FHA website)

Federal Housing Administration Web site

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Health CARE

• Marchers Urge Corbett To Accept Federal Funds to Expand Medicaid
• Pa. court: Reinstate health-care funding for the poor
• Take money for Medicaid
• Uninsured S.E. Pennsylvanians have nearly doubled since 2000 - survey
• Settlement to give Pa. families chance to rejoin Medicaid program
• New Health Insurance Coverage Coming to PA –
  If Corbett Accepts it!
• Hearings eyed for Blue Cross

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PUP t-shirts now available

other campaigns

• Organizing Unemployed Workers in the Great Recession
• Summary of federal and state minimum wage rates
• Throwing minimum-wage 'experts' for a loss
• Lessons from the Minimum Wage Campaign in Pennsylvania

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The Philadelphia Unemployment Project is a membership organization of low-wage workers and the unemployed. PUP has fought for jobs and for economic justice since 1975. We are also an unemployed workers center that helps people win unemployment cases, save their houses, and get access to health care.

Spotlight on PUP

John and Evelyn Dodds, Helping the Unemployed While Caring for a Newborn

Jobless to lose benefits to budget cuts (CNN video)

Unemployment drops in September: PUP on ABC 6

CNN Spotlights PUP

Payday loans: Bad idea for Pa.

Protest rally for elimination of general assistance

Looking For Jobs At Xfinity Live!

Homeowners protest upcomming sheriff's sale (video)

Click here: 99ers: The Real Lives of the Long-Term Jobless - Video - TIME.com

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Recent Events

Health Care Rally April 18, 2013
March and Rally to Corbett’s Office
Thursday, April 18 Noon
See Slides

Roundtable with low wage workers and the Secretary of Labor.
See Slides

PUP was featured by BCKSEET Productions for their holiday play EL Fuego, a new holiday musical which deals with issues of unemployment at the Adrienne Theater in December. They are donating some of the proceeds from the play to PUP.   
Click here: Outreach Initiative
Click here: El Fuego, a new holiday musical

PUP Gift Drive for Children of the Unemployed
December 20. 2012
See Slides

Unemployment Compensation Rally
November 19, 2012
See Slides

HEMAP Lobby Day and Rally
April 3, 2012
See Slides

Save Our Homes Coalition at City Council
March 29, 2012
See slides

Commuter Options

As the jobless recovery continues the Commuter Options program continues to offer a path to employment for Philadelphia workers.  Commuter Options van and car pools provide transportation to nearly 100 workers daily to jobs in the suburbs.

PUPCO 2012 Accounts

Commuter Options Press Coverage

• Nepalese refugees blaze a trail in Phila.
• 'Job sprawl' threatens urban poor, study says
• Phila. Van-Pooling Organization Expands As Jobs Become More Scarce

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