Philadelphia Unemployment Project

09/03/2025

Our Tuba Skinny fundraiser this weekend was a blast! Thanks to all our staff, volunteers, attendees and especially Tuba Skinny for making it a great show!

09/02/2025

PUP Board Secretary Danyelle Blackwell surrounded by Tuba Skinny.

Call now to connect with business.

08/31/2025

Call now to connect with business.

08/28/2025

PUP has been active in helping tenants in danger of eviction. Our Director Adam Goldman is quoted here.

Funding for the new program was included in the budget lawmakers passed last week.

08/22/2025

1 week away! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuba-skinny-in-philadelphia-tickets-1397089294689?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/06/2025

PUP members in action to prevent SEPTA cuts to service and raising fares without looking into their rainy day fund. It's raining! We will not get 100% from the state budget, both the state and the rainy day fund is needed, SEPTA has to put skin in the game

08/02/2025

07/31/2025

07/03/2025

Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick was the only Republican to vote NO on moving forward the tax and spending bill which will make massive cuts to Medicaid. 104,500 of his constituents, including 31,000 children, rely on the program for their healthcare.

Constituents should tell him to stay strong and vote NO again when the bill comes up for final passage: 215-579-8102

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/07/photo-essay-hundreds-participate-in-die-in-at-congressman-brian-fitzpatricks-office-to-highlight-deadly-stakes-of-gop-budget/

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” which Fitzpatrick has voted for is projected to kick nearly 12 million people off of Medicaid and cut over $260 billion in food aid.

02/26/2025

PUP joined with our partners at Mon Valley Unemployed Committee in Harrisburg yesterday to call on the PA Department of Labor & Industry to hire enough staff to hold unemployment appeal hearings in a timely manner.

Right now many claimants are waiting 3 or more months before they have a hearing. Meanwhile bills pile up and unemployed workers continue to fall behind on rent.

Mon Valley and Philadelphia groups gathered in Harrisburg to demand quicker decisions on unemployment cases from the state Department of Labor and Industry. Advocates say they've worked with people who faced evictions and car repossessions as a result of delayed payments.