Scoop USA Newspaper - October 14, 2022

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An Apology Decades Too Late

Federal Reserve determined to stop growth

Jobs are back, so workers have a target on their backs. The Labor Department reports the economy produced 263,000 jobs in September.

3 mins

World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day was Monday, October 10, 2022. Mental health is still a big issue in our city. More often than not, mental health is still a taboo subject for communities of color.

3 mins

State lawmakers announce $500,000 in funding for Roxborough High School for security enhancements

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11 State Reps. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Phila., Pamela A. DeLissio, D-Montgomery/Phila., and state Sen. Vince Hughes, D-Montgomery/Phila., announced 500,000 in funding for Roxborough High School for security enhancements.

2 mins

New steps toward Ending Hunger

“In every country in the world and in every state in this country, no matter what else divides us, if a parent cannot feed a child, there’s nothing else that matters for that parent. If you look at your child and you can’t feed your child, what the hell else matters?”

3 mins

An Apology Decades Too Late

Last year during Black History Month, I took the time to remind readers about the atrocities committed against people of color…citizens of the City of Philadelphia, by the University of Pennsylvania, Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and the now deceased Dr. Albert Kligman, MD, Ph.D.

2 mins

Fetterman, Oz vie for Black voters in close Pa. Senate race

PHILADELPHIA (AP) As Sheila Armstrong grew emotional in recounting how her brother and nephew were killed in Philadelphia, Dr. Mehmet Oz sitting next to her inside a Black church, their chairs arranged a bit like his former daytime TV show set placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

5 mins

Coach Dawn Staley earns Billie Jean King Leadership Award

NEW YORK (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley's busy offseason after winning another NCAA basketball title has included savoring the victory, lining up team-wide NIL deals and supporting coaches of color.

4 mins

Health Department encourages Pennsylvanians to get Flu Vaccine, COVID-19 Booster this Fall

LANCASTER, PA, October 11, 2022 Department of Health Acting Secretary and Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Denise Johnson joined public health officials from Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health to encourage residents to get their flu shot and COVID-19 vaccination boosters as we enter the 2022-2023 flu season.

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PA Department of Education rolls out PA FAFSA Go! Initiative encouraging students to complete their 2023-24 FAFSA

SLIPPERY ROCK, PA, October 3, 2022– The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) joined Slippery Rock University and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) to promote the PA FAFSA Go! Initiative and remind students to fill out their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the coming year.

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Why is trickle-down economics still with us?

Within weeks of taking office, Britain’s new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and her chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, proposed a radical new set of economic measures that echoed the trickle-down policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan — heavy on tax cuts for the rich and deregulation.

3 mins

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Scoop is a for-profit, Community Media Company that prides itself on its dedication to Community. We have been in the business of educating our communities since February 1960. From our first publication to our publication this week, our focus has been to provide information to the communities we serve, so they can survive, work cooperatively together, and prosper.
Our mission is to leave, through Scoop's content, an ability for our readers to understand three things:
1) They are not limited to their current position in life, and that position does not define them,
2) There are many people in the world who may be struggling to better understand their environment, and to achieve within it, as our readers may be, and
3) We, at Scoop, are working every day to present opportunities, programs and solutions that we as a community can implement, together, to improve our lives and our communities, as a whole