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Pa. Department of Labor says nearly 300,000 workers age 40 and older would benefit from minimum wage increases
Harrisburg, Pa. - Dispelling the harmful stereotype that hardworking and experienced adults will not benefit from a minimum wage increase, Jennifer Berrier, acting secretary of the Department of Labor & Industry, joined Sen. Nikil Saval; and a Westmoreland County home...
Philly progressives, urbanists blast $130 million cut to city parking tax
Opposition is rising to a City Council proposal to slash Philadelphia’s parking tax rate by nearly a third, in exchange for the promise of better pay and more work for lot employees and a boost to the city’s economy. The city’s tax on parking lot revenues is already...
Nearly 300,000 Workers Age 40+ Would Get Pay Boost From Minimum Wage Increase
HARRISBURG, PA — Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier recently joined Senator Nikil Saval, a Westmoreland County home health aide and Giant Eagle worker today to call on the legislature to raise the wage to $12 an hour with a pathway...
‘They’re Worth More Than $7.25 An Hour’: Push Continues For Minimum Wage Raise In Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG (KDKA) – A state official says it’s time to immediately raise the state’s minimum wage. Some call them heroes: front-line workers putting themselves at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE: Man’s Body Found In Moon Twp., Police Investigating Case As...
6 Books Wage And Hour Attorneys Should Read This Summer
After more than a year of pandemic-related stress and upheaval, attorneys could be looking forward to this summer's opportunities to unwind. Here, Law360 looks at six books wage and hour attorneys recommended...
Senator Saval’s Remarks at Press Conference on Gun Violence
Policy Hearing on Housing and the Unhoused
PA Senate Democrats Hold Policy Hearing on Systemic Housing Insecurity
Harrisburg – May 14, 2021 - At the request of state Senators Tim Kearney (D- Chester/Delaware) and Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia), the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a virtual public hearing on housing and the unhoused in Pennsylvania. “Everyone...
5 Takeaways From Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval’s Virtual Visit to Drexel
On May 4, Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval joined Andrew Zitcer, PhD, program director for Drexel University’s graduate program in urban strategy, in discussion for an ongoing event series, “Urban Strategy in the Present Tense,” sponsored by the Lindy Institute...
‘Their situation is very desperate’: Philly region’s Indian community uses ties back home to send COVID aid
Lakshmi Iyer feels like she’s caught between two worlds. The 45-year-old financial service worker lives in Exton with her family, and has been watching with horror as COVID-19 cases have surged in her home country of India. Her Twitter feed is full of people back home...
Rental Assistance 101 – How to Get the Support You Deserve
Pa. progressives see Biden’s infrastructure push as a chance to go big on climate change
A Philadelphia activist who’s been fighting SEPTA for years over a natural gas generator. A Southwestern Pennsylvania environmentalist who lives near ground zero of the state’s fracking boom. And an Erie union member who works for a rail manufacturing company that...
Everything Is Illuminated Badly
In the first few minutes of Joe Versus the Volcano, the 1990 surrealist rom-com, Tom Hanks clocks in for his job at an artificial testicle company, housed in a bleak, factorylike building overrun with flickering, audibly buzzing fluorescent tube lights that cast a...
Senator Saval Announces Additional Grant Awards, Bringing Total to $2.5 Million Received in the Past Two Weeks
Philadelphia, PA − April 26, 2021 − State Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia) is thrilled to announce the award of five grants totaling more than $1.2 million for public infrastructure projects that will benefit the people of Philadelphia and the First...
Chauvin verdict reignites calls for police reform in Pa.
From the U.S. Capitol to the halls of statehouses across the land, this week’s guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder case has reignited calls for police reform and for a new look at the way the United States conceives of law enforcement. And you can count...
Relief, calm, and a sense that ‘justice was served’ as Philadelphia watches Chauvin’s guilty verdict
As the verdict convicting Derek Chauvin was read in a Minneapolis courtroom, it was broadcast through a loudspeaker someone had set up outside Philadelphia’s City Hall. It flashed across phone screens and prompted honks from cars and shouts of “Black Lives Matter!”...
Local Progressive Elected Officials Respond to Chauvin Verdict
PHILADELPHIA − April 20, 2021 − A coalition of local progressive elected officials issued the following statement on the unanimous guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin case, and called for systemic change through a new vision of public safety that ends the continual...
Why Schools Should Be the Center of a Green New Deal
One of the main things Terriq Thompson remembers about Benjamin Franklin High School, where he graduated in 2019, is that it was hot. In particular, he remembers his first day of his senior year. It was an unusually warm September, and that day, it was 90 degrees...
Nonprofits can learn a lot about mutual aid from the team that was at Taggart Elementary on Saturday
Helping your neighbor in time of need is what it’s all about at the Taggart Elementary School. That was evident at its book drive and resource fair on Saturday, April 17. The schoolyard at 4th and Porter was the center of activity as families came to partake of the...
Senator Saval Announces $1.2 Million Grant for Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure Project
Philadelphia, PA —April 19, 2021 — State Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia) is delighted to announce the award of a $1.2 million PennDOT Multimodal Transportation Fund grant to a pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure project in the First Senate District. ...