03/20/21 People seeking benefits have faced long wait times and delayed responses to questions, slow adjudication of denied claims — on average, 92 days — seemingly random payments stoppages, and mistaken overpayments that are rectified by cutting future dollars. Lawmakers highlighted much of this Tuesday. “Other people who have called us are, quite honestly, near […]
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Philadelphia, May 3, 2022 – Pennsylvania State Representative Elizabeth Fiedler on Tuesday announced endorsements from Planned Parenthood and EMILY’s List in her bid for re-election. “EMILY’s List is excited to endorse Elizabeth Fiedler to represent Pennsylvania’s 184th House District,” said Sarah Curmi, Vice President of State and Local Campaigns at EMILY’s List. “Rep. Fiedler’s dedication […]
1/18/2022 State Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler recently partnered with local groups to provide food to senior citizens and families across her district, which includes parts of South Philadelphia. Dozens of holiday hams and groceries were provided to seniors from the South Philadelphia Older Adult Center, and to children and their families from the Discovery Place Pre-School, […]
June 18, 2021 As lawmakers prepare to make the final push to pass a state budget, education funding is becoming a focal point on several fronts. “We stand in solidarity with the 5- and 6-year-old children whose lungs, hearts and brains are still developing while they sit in toxic buildings. We stand here today with […]
June 16, 2021 HARRISBURG, June 16 — Labor leaders and lawmakers from across Pennsylvania took to the steps of the Capitol in Harrisburg on Wednesday morning to hold a Labor for Schools Rally. The group called for the legislature to take bold, job-creating, life-saving action and remediate the lead, asbestos and other toxins currently in […]
April 21, 2021, 03:56 GMT 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 increasing of police budgets, instead investing in communities and public services that prevent […]
April 16, 2021 Schools statewide are in urgent need of upgrades for the health and safety of students and staff, and a recent meeting of the House Democratic Policy Committee’s Subcommittee on Progressive Policies for Working People highlighted what actions the state can take to address toxic schools. The public virtual hearing, hosted by Subcommittee […]
March 2 “We write to ask that the city work swiftly to support the opening of vaccination sites in South Philadelphia,” reads the letter signed by City Councilman Mark Squilla, state Sen. Nikil Saval and state Reps. Elizabeth Fiedler and Regina Young. “We are deeply concerned by the lack of COVID vaccine services being offered […]
02/27/21 State Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler (D-Philadelphia) is among a group of House and Senate progressive Democrats holding their own budget hearings. In contrast, they say, to the Harrisburg way of crunching dollars and cents being closed doors. “Not in a place where the public …the people of Pennsyvlania who pay taxes with tax dollars we […]
2/22/21 President Joe Biden’s planned $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package is still taking shape, but the most recent figures suggest the package will contain about $350 billion earmarked for state and local governments. On Friday, state Sen. Vincent Hughes (D-Phila.), state Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler (D-Phila.), and several other Democratic lawmakers held a virtual press conference […]