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Americans are least satisfied with pay, retirement plan, health benefits, Gallup poll shows

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. o ...

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Pa. restores grants to help the poor with heating bills

Fall has yet to begin, but it’s already been a long year for the Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance program known as LIHEAP. ...

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Early intervention for kids with autism can cut down future costs, Penn study finds

Intensive early intervention can make a huge difference when it comes to autism. But some insurers and state and local early-inter ...

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 Will Gonzalez with the nonprofit community organization Ceiba introduces Programa Adelante at Finanta, another nonprofit organization, in North Philadelphia. (Laura Benshoff / WHYY)
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Paving way to citizenship, new Philly program offers eligible immigrants financial tools

More than 90 percent of all Latinos with lawful permanent status in the United States say they would become citizens if they could, accor ...

7 years ago

Site of the development at 218 Arch Street Monday morning.
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‘It’s far too important’: Judge requests more details from developer on proposed handling of Arch Street remains

A Philadelphia judge has given a property developer ten days to come up with a better plan to excavate, transfer and rebury historic huma ...

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 Frank Kurylo, 27,co-owns an organic farm with a partner but he is still paying off his student loan debt. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Should we forgive student debt for young farmers?

Farmers in the U.S. are getting older, and some say we should forgive the student loan debt of aspiring farmers to prevent a shortage in ...

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After fending off debt collectors for years, Adrienne McNally, 49, was sued by the federal government over $6,200 in student loans she took out decades ago. There is now a lien from the government on her home in Northeast Philadelphia. (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
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Amid billions owed in student loans, U.S. taps law firms to recoup small debts from long ago

Adriene McNally received an unwanted gift on her 49th birthday in January: a notice that the federal government had placed a lien on her ...

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Michael Trost of Dingmans Ferry, Pa. (seen here with his wife, Susan Rosalsky) was billed $32,325 for a surgery with an out-of-network doctor in an in-network hospital. (Elana Gordon/for WHYY)
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Surprise! When your hospital is in-network but your doctor isn’t

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

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Romans, booty and sailors: all part of the history of pensions

Unfunded pensions have been around for thousands of years—even as far back as the Roman Republic. As we were reporting on the pr ...

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50 Free Summer Activities to do with Kids in Philadelphia

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