Workforce development is not one size fits all. Each community, each individual, has a different set of circumstances that require varying supports in search of the same goal: a life-sustaining job.    At Pathways to Housing PA, the Work First program has supported a small cohort of individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness for the […]

For me, this journey didn’t start with transportation—it started with opportunity. Before I entered City government, my work centered on workforce and economic stability across multiple states. This was during a time when there was a real sense of possibility—investments in infrastructure, in green jobs, in creating new pathways for people, especially those who had […]

THEN: The 10-36  Plan, an interview with Pastor Michael A Majors Solutions for Now: Economic Inclusion Economic exclusion in Philadelphia is not the result of individual choices but of how the system is structured. Entire neighborhoods face the same barriers simultaneously: structural barriers, limited access to capital, fewer pathways to ownership, unstable housing, and jobs […]

When you ask Carniesha Kwashie where her story begins, she does not start with a job title or a program name. She starts at her grandparents’ kitchen table. “I came into the world knowing I was loved,” she says. “I never doubted it. My grandparents, my parents, my aunts and uncles – they poured so […]