Topic: Broke in Philly

A Philly reporting collaborative launches a new series that looks at how being poor costs more money

Philly hunger nonprofit Philabundance has launched an innovative program to benefit farmers, retailers, the environment, and the hungry. Its secret weapon? Cheese.

Local nonprofit PAR-Recycle Works teaches those recently released from prison to break down electronics—and sells the resulting scrap metal

The Villanova professor has operated a volunteer-run winter homeless shelter with her students for several years. Now they want to open the first permanent one that welcomes pets and the disabled.

The jobs are in the suburbs, but many Philadelphians have no way to get there. The Philadelphia Unemployment Project has the answer: Car pooling

BROKE in Philly launches today with 19 media outlets committed to shedding light and finding solutions to the city’s biggest scourge: Poverty