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2026
2025
- Health Care Advocates in Delaware County Put Legislators on Notice: Stop Allowing Hospital and Health Care Closures to Continue Bucks County Beacon
- Protestors Arrested After Sit-In at Crozer-Chester Medical Center DELCO.today
- 8 protesters arrested at Crozer-Chester rally Delaware County Daily Times
- Eight protesters arrested after sit-in at shuttered Crozer-Chester Medical Center Philadelphia Inquirer
- Advocates urge action as Keystone Mission closes in Wilkes-Barre Fox 56
- Housing advocates protest in Wilkes-Barre after shelter closure The Citizens’ Voice
- Republicans’ “Big Beautiful” Medicaid Cuts Spur Rural Organizing Innovation The Nation
- Poverty and politics Williamsport Sun-Gazette
- Only the United Poor Can Save Medicaid The Progressive
- “There’s no other option”: Black, Hispanic families worried by Medicaid cuts Context / Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Resistance Grows as Proposed Cuts Threaten Health Care for Over 79 Million in US Truthout
- Homelessness in Bucks County Rose 25 Percent in 2024, Exceeding Alarming Nationwide Trend Bucks County Beacon
2024
- Philly City Council supports the creation of a state health care advocate — here’s what that office would do PhillyVoice
- Rally in Harrisburg demands adult dental benefits in Medicaid ABC27 Harrisburg
- As Pennsylvania’s Medicaid ‘unwinding’ hits a year, thousands have lost coverage but many haven’t 90.5 WESA
- Pa. Medicaid drops 500,000 people during ‘unwinding’ year WHYY
- Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner files lawsuit with hopes of lowering price of insulin CBS News Philadelphia
- Philadelphia District Attorney sues pharmaceutical companies over insulin prices 6abc Philadelphia
- Hundreds gather in Harrisburg to demand abolition of poverty, racism, war PennLive
- Photos: Hundreds gather in Harrisburg to demand abolition of poverty, racism, war PennLive
- We Can Break The Cycle of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Prison OtherWords
2023
2020
2019
- Lancaster, PA march demands right to healthcare in the face of hospital closure, corporate profiteering Liberation News
- Medicaid march set for Saturday Lancaster Newspapers
- Standing up for better health care Lancaster Newspapers
- Johnstown protesters march through city over healthcare concerns WJAC Johnstown
- Fighting for Health Care in America’s Forgotten Towns OtherWords
- ‘March for Medicaid’ set Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
- Advocacy project looks to eliminate millions in medical debt for Western Pennsylvanians Pittsburgh CityPaper
- For low-income Pennsylvanians, dental care can be a nightmare WHYY Philadelphia
- Hahnemann University Hospital closure planned: Profit vs. people’s lives Liberation News
- Stop the profit-driven insurance system Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Love Your Class! Considerations for Building a Statewide Movement in Pennsylvania The Kairos Center
- More protests over Hahnemann University Hospital closing take place in Center City Fox 29 Philadelphia
- Patients, hospital staff, community groups rally to save Hahnemann Philadelphia Inquirer
- Philadelphia Judge Grants Injunction To Stop Closing Of Hahnemann Hospital CW Philly
- Put People First members attend presidential forum Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
- Poor people got an audience with Democratic candidates. Many were skeptical that politicians can help them. Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Right’s Cure for Poverty: Hard Work and Father Figures The Nation
- The Brian Lehrer Show: Poor People’s Campaign and 2020 WNYC
- For adults on Medicaid, getting dental care is an uphill battle WHYY
- In the spotlight: Tammy Rojas seeks systemic changes for the poor Lancaster Newspapers
- City Council endorses health care advocate for Pennsylvania Lancaster Newspapers
- The Human-Rights Agenda Underlying the 2019 Medicare for All Bill The Nation
- Anti-poverty advocates call for a “New Moral Agenda” for Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Capital-Star
- Mayor, council president explain Lancaster’s handling of UPMC Pinnacle hospital closure Lancaster Newspapers
- Leadership Across Difference: An interview with leaders from Put People First! PA University of the Poor Journal
- Group of Lancaster residents not ready to say goodbye to UPMC Pinnacle hospital ABC 27 Lancaster
- Forum held to discuss hospital closing in Lancaster WGAL Lancaster
- Activists plan meeting, vigil on eve of UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster hospital closure Lancaster Newspapers
- Residents right to be angry Lancaster Newspapers
- “It’s an atrocity” – protestors decry UPMC Pinnacle closure at Binns Park Wednesday Lancaster Newspapers
- Protest expected Wednesday afternoon outside county government building against UPMC Pinnacle closure Lancaster Newspapers
2018
- Closure of UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster highlights the tough realities of running hospitals like businesses Lancaster Newspapers
- City Council passes Lancaster’s 2019 budget, gets earful over UPMC Pinnacle hospital closure Lancaster Newspapers
- Group will take concerns about Lancaster hospital closing to city council Lancaster Newspapers
- Picking up the torch to fight poverty Lancaster Newspapers
2017
- Single-payer health care is gaining steam. These are the people who made it possible. ThinkProgress
- Single Payer Is on the National Agenda—And It’s Thanks to People’s Movements In These Times
- Potential Obamacare premium hikes ‘unacceptable’ to some Pennsylvania consumers Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Doctors, residents plead for better insurance Sunbury Daily Item
- Interviews for Resistance: Disrupting the System by Demanding Healthcare as a Human Right In These Times
- An Almost Trump Voter: How Education and My Activism Changed My Husband’s Opinion Truthout