After years of advocates’ efforts and a final push the past two years to pass legislation, the state’s Department of Public Welfare officially becomes Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services today. […]
News Item Types Archives: Barriers
‘Poverty simulation’ helps drive home the reality
As part of Circles East Liberty, Eastminster Church hosted an exercise to demonstrate the daily grind of poverty. For one intensely compressed month, Christine Smith tried to live as “Robert […]
Pennsylvania denies 75 percent of welfare applicants
The vast majority of applicants for welfare benefits in Pennsylvania are rejected every month, data from the state show, and some blame a 2012 change in state law for sharply […]
Protest about welfare office closure plans turns to victory rally in McKeesport
The state Department of Public Welfare’s decision not to close its East Liberty assistance office nor consolidate it with those in McKeesport or New Kensington turned scheduled protests Tuesday into […]
State welfare officials say they will keep office open in East Liberty
The state Department of Public Welfare has reversed a decision to close an assistance office in East Liberty next month and will stay at its location at 5947 Penn Ave. […]
Clients first: DPW forgot the first rule of customer service
Let’s hope the department comes through. Officials at the state Department of Public Welfare are backpedaling now. They made a senseless decision to temporarily shut down their busy East Liberty […]
DPW Closing East Liberty Office
A Department of Public Welfare office in Pittsburgh is closing, and Just Harvest is taking a stand for the workers and families that will be affected. Starting May 2, families […]
Just Harvest and SEIU Local 668 rally to save East Liberty County Assistance Office
The Department of Public Welfare (DPW) plans to close the Greater Pittsburgh East County Assistance Office (CAO) and relocate its workers to McKeesport, PA, creating considerable hardship for the working […]
East Liberty welfare office to shut down in May
An Allegheny County Assistance Office will close in East Liberty, potentially forcing thousands of low-income families from two dozen ZIP codes to travel to McKeesport for services. The state Department […]
Serve the needy: Another report shows DPW falling short
You can’t serve the public without public employees. That’s the reality confirmed in a report by the Service Employees International Union on caseworker understaffing at the Department of Public Welfare. […]
