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December 22, 2020

Economy League and Independence Blue Cross Announce Finalists of Well City Challenge Addressing Community Solutions to Millennial Health

PHILADELPHIA – December 21, 2020 — The Economy League of Greater Philadelphia (ELGP) and Independence Blue Cross (Independence) today announced the...

November 9, 2020

Well City Challenge seeks innovative ideas to improve millennial health

Millennials have gained a lot of attention in recent years for the way they influence cultural and economic trends. They are expected to continue to...

October 28, 2020

The Crisis of Millennial Health

Independence Blue Cross and The Economy League have launched an innovative approach to addressing the surprising health needs of an entire generation...

October 22, 2020

Billy Penn: COVID wrecking your mental health? New initiative will award $100k to pilot solutions for Philly millennials

Smoking more, drinking more alcohol and using more recreational drugs — all while mental health problems grow. That’s been the growing landscape for...

October 19, 2020

Economy League and Independence Blue Cross Launch Well City Challenge to Seek Community Solutions for Addressing Millennial Health

Press Contact: Leah Sinderbrand, Skai Blue Media [email protected] (215) 625-7988 PHILADELPHIA (OCT 19, 2020) – On Oct. 26, the Economy League of...

MasterCard's Inclusive Growth Score

Leading Indicators 1 July 2020 MasterCard’s Inclusive Growth Score By: Mike Shields and Diana Gavrykh The Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Region is...

Philadelphia's Anchor Institutions Are Stepping up

As Economy League research has shown , 99.7% of local businesses employing the majority of the region’s workforce are small by federal guidelines, and...

COVID-19 vs. The Gig Economy: One Restaurant Worker's Story

Once COVID-19 began its rapid spread across the United States, leaders and public health experts called for a policy of social distancing and of...

New Economy League Study Explores Economic Impact of Pennsylvania Legal Pardons

Evaluating a decade’s worth of data, the Economy League’s in-depth study analyzes pardons and proposes policy options to increase pardons as a...

Our Pivot to the Pivot

What do you do when overnight a global pandemic plunges your organization into uncertainty? At the Economy League, we immediately sprang into action...