From a policy standpoint, the most important thing is that policy makers are upfront with the American people about these tradeoffs.

While President Obama’s proposal to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 languishes in the Republican-controlled Congress, Penn Democrats applauds Governor Tom Wolf’s effort to increase Pennsylvania's minimum wage.

Penn is ranked the number five school for social science majors.  The School of Arts and Sciences offers some of the best programs in the social sciences, including sociology, criminology and psychology. Unique to Penn is its Social Science and Policy Forum, which "builds scholarship around areas of public interest." On average, social science majors at Penn go on to have average mid-career salaries of $105,000. Other schools on the list include George Washington University in the number one spot, Harvard in second and Columbia in third.  Find out what the top 10 schools for social science majors are here.

Ivy League acceptances for the class of 2019 have been released.  This year, Penn accepted 3.697 students from a pool of 37,267, a 9.9 percent acceptance rate.

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Democratic Candidate for Philadelphia Mayor Doug Oliver previously worked in the administration of Former Pennsylvania Governor and Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell.

Though Penn's acceptance rate is as low as ever, a new ranking claims that's not the only data point that matters. 

Sherrie Cohen, a 1975 College graduate, looks to become the first openly gay candidate elected to City Council. 

College freshman and 34th Street contributor Amanda Silberling lost things while moving out of her temporary room and found things missing after returning to her original room.

Workers plan to walk off the job on April 15th to advocate for increasing minimum wage to $15 per hour and rights to unionize.

Approximately four years ago, Wharton Professor Keith Weiglet started Wharton initiative Building Bridges to Wealth, a program that helps combat the racial wealth gap in West Philadelphia by providing free financial literacy courses.

As their senior design project, Engineering seniors Julia Sigal, Valerie Cohen, Jonathan Tieu and Sam Ettinger are creating a revolutionary bicycle helmet.

Coming into 2015, Penn softball pitcher and first baseman Alexis Sargent had already recorded the eighth-most home runs in program history, notched the school's fifth-lowest career earned run average, been named second-team All-Ivy and led the Quakers to the Ivy League Championship series. All in her rookie season. Sargent’s tremendous debut in 2014 wasn’t totally unexpected, as the Virginia native joined the Red and Blue after being named to the All-State team three times in high school, among numerous other accolades.

This week, Penn women’s lacrosse will attempt to tame the Lions before encountering top-ranked Wildcats. The Quakers, off to a fast start and ranked No.

It’s pretty safe to say Penn baseball coach John Yurkow could use a little less excitement in his life.

Late in the third set of her match against Princeton last Saturday, Penn women's tennis' top singles player and senior captain Sol Eskanazi was in the middle of an epic battle. Trailing in a tiebreaker, the senior ripped a lefty forehand up the line, leaving the Princeton player dead in her tracks, forced to watch the ball fly by. “Vamos!” Eskanazi, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, roared with a big fist pump. As exemplified by Eskanazi, college tennis has recently become a showcase of the best athletic talents from not only the United States, but nations worldwide.

There are upsides to being held accountable, but we lose something when we self-censor. We miss the goofy sentiments, the random toss-out of ideas to the universe, the fragility of paint splattered against a river bank. Too often we lose sight of what we want to say in fear we’ll say something wrong.