“Port Authority bus riders who object to higher fares for cash customers chanted a different holiday message Friday. Pittsburghers for Public Transit and Just Harvest held a rally at the Wood Street T Station, Downtown, to call attention to its effort to eliminate what it calls inequities in the Port Authority’s fare system….”
“Ken Regal, executive director of Just Harvest, has been working at the nonprofit since it began in 1986. In that time, Just Harvest has continuously grown its programs to address the causes of hunger in new ways. It operates with the long-term goal of eradicating hunger through changes to public policy and the food system….”
“The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania will offer free tax preparation assistance in Westmoreland, Allegheny and neighboring counties and seeks volunteers to staff the program….”
“Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill into law with a broad array of measures that supporters say will deter fraud in public assistance programs but that critics say are overly putative measures that will hurt the poor and do little to prevent fraud….”
“This is the last of four stories examining food deserts in the Pittsburgh region. Clairton has been one of Green Grocer’s stops since the beginning. The city of nearly 7,000 people that’s south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela remains one of the most popular stops for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s mobile farmers market, which started […]
“Jessica Paquette arrived at the Arlington Avenue dollar store around noon on a recent Wednesday. She needed to buy milk. The 30-year-old mother of two walked through the aisles stocked with confections and party favors to a small refrigerated section at the back. She stood there a few moments, paced for a few more and […]
“The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank soon will receive an influx of meat, fruit, dairy and other food as a result of the Trump administration’s tariff policies….”
“When she was a hospital doctor, Sonya Scott saw too many “people in their 40s and 50s with heart disease, preventable forms of cancer, and alcoholism,” she recounted recently. She “was offering them pharmaceuticals,” she said, “and it felt like a sticking plaster.”…”
“With several days of September now behind us, the official beginning of fall is fast approaching. Although we’ve had quite a bit of disparity between the recent muggy summer forecasts and the much-anticipated arrival of autumn weather, the varying temperatures still haven’t discouraged members of our community from visiting the city’s numerous farmers markets….”
“Hungry people, experts will tell you, are always silent. On Tuesday, they lined up in a quiet queue in the courtyard of St. Francis Inn Ministries in Kensington, awaiting breakfast under a sapping morning sun….”
