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FREE After School Activities Fair in Southwest Philly
Please join Broke in Philly and partner Billy Penn, for a FREE After School Activities Fair Saturday in Southwest Philly. (Read more.)
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Wake Up With WURD 9.10.18 – Justin Ennis
On today’s show we have Justin Ennis who is the Executive Director, ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships. He joins Wake Up With WURD to talk about after school programs in Philadelphia and also to talk about an after school program fair that will be happening Sept. 22 (Read more.)
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BREAKING POVERTY: Crime, poverty often linked
From The Philadelphia Tribune: Three of the poorest ZIP codes in the city — 19132 (North Philadelphia-West), 19134 (Port Richmond) and 19140 (Germantown, Nicetown and North Philadelphia-West) — are responsible for almost a third of the city’s homicides since January 2013. (Read more.)
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This Week at Broke in Philly: 09.14.18
• BREAKING POVERTY: Bad breaks early in life often weave an inescapable web for the poor | From: The Philadelphia Tribune
• Education is the answer to many of life’s challenges | From: The Philadelphia Tribune
• Quality education can reduce poverty | From: The Philadelphia Tribune
• Sheriffs target ‘deadbeat dads’ with midnight raids, debtor’s prison. But does it help the kids? | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Democratizing Food | From: The Philadelphia Citizen
• Around the country, incomes are rising. In Philly, they’re falling | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Philly antipoverty office: Lack of clout, vision, and leadership | From: Philadelphia Media Network
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Philly antipoverty office: Lack of clout, vision, and leadership
From Philadelphia Media Network: In 2013, Mayor Michael Nutter rebranded Philadelphia’s community services office and charged it with nothing less than the slashing of poverty in the poorest big city in the United States. Five years on, the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity has spent $65 million with few measurable accomplishments. (Read more.)
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Around the country, incomes are rising. In Philly, they’re falling.
From Philadelphia Media Network: Two reports from the U.S. Census Bureau released Wednesday and Thursday show that as poverty has declined and income has increased nationwide, Philadelphia’s poverty rate remained stuck at 25.7 percent in 2017, the same as in 2016, and close to 2015’s level of 25.8 percent. (Read more.)
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Democratizing Food
From The Philadelphia Citizen: For the last decade, Common Market has spread affordable access to locally-sourced nutrient-dense food to the city’s neediest. Now its mission is spreading nationwide (Read more.)
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Sheriffs target ‘deadbeat dads’ with midnight raids, debtor’s prison. But does it help the kids?
From Philadelphia Media Network: Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County, and across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, conduct regular “deadbeat dad” sweeps and invite the evening news to film the perp walks. Parents say the practice is not only counterproductive but also traumatic to kids. (Read more.)
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Quality education can reduce poverty
From The Philadelphia Tribune: In today’s world of advanced technology and globalization it is extremely difficult to have financial stability without the foundation of a good pre-school, K-12 and post-secondary education, whether that is certification for a valued skill, additional training, community college or four-year college degree. (Read more.)
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Education is the answer to many of life’s challenges
From The Philadelphia Tribune: Historical standards for what constitutes poverty have improved and therefore the anti-poverty movement has been a success. While this analysis may take into account those historical factors that describe conditions of poverty, it grossly understates the human suffering and intergenerational character of poverty as viewed by those of us who continue to fight this insidious war. (Read more.)