Thanks to everyone who joined our town hall last Friday! We were grateful to be joined by Rep. Dwight Evans, Councilmember Helen Gym, and…
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NOT NEARLY ENOUGH! Town Hall Friday January 8th @ 11am for a Better Stimulus
The new COVID release stimulus passed by Congress completely fails to address the needs of millions of unemployed workers. We demand a better, more robust…
Exhaustion of benefits approaching
As the debate over a stimulus package drags on, unemployed workers are beginning to run out of all their unemployment benefits. We are most concerned…
Jobless wait months for benefits
¨Ted Kelly, an organizer with the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, an advocacy group that organizes unemployed workers, said people who have called his organization for help are…
PA IS FACING A FORECLOSURE CRISIS – Save Our Homes Coalition meeting invitation
On behalf of the Save Our Homes Coalition, I am contacting you today to ask for your help in preventing the massive wave of foreclosures…
We need an Unemployed Rescue Package
Millions of unemployed will soon run out of unemployment benefits as CARES Act funding comes to an end on December 31. Gig workers and self…
Unemployed Organizing Committee Bulletin – September 2020
Workers Fighting for Their Unemployment Benefits in the Pandemic Unemployed workers from the Philadelphia area are coming together to demand protection for themselves and their…
Check out Wells Fargo, Philly’s biggest bank, will tap federal money for homeowners in need, who now have just 5 days to apply
Wells Fargo forced to accept PA mortgage assistance by citizen pressure! “…the Pandemic Assistance Mortgage Program is the only one that offers direct grants, said…
Stimulus aid is dead, but unemployed workers demand Congress revive compensation
A lone bagpiper and pallbearers led dozens of sign-carrying protesters with an empty coffin in a mock funeral procession outside City Hall Thursday. PHILADELPHIA (KYW…
Philadelphia Unemployment Project Helping Frustrated Citizens Get Unemployment Claims Processed
TV news clip and article TV on Channel 3 HERE By Trang Do August 6, 2020 at 6:17 pm PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — While millions wait on Congress…