WHATS ON YOUR MIND? ONE TRACK MIND Philadelphia County: 399,562 People Living in Poverty; 26.7% of the Brothers and Sisters of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. Median income: $35,518. Receiving Food Stamps: 152,556. AND, Philadelphia is losing its Middle Class. Philadelphia needs to stop loss of the middle class. It is tempting if one lives, plays, or works amid the skyscrapers, apartments, restaurants of white-hot Center City to think that all is gangbusters in the nations FIFTH LARGEST CITY [emphasis mine]. Redevelopment has reignited downtown Philadelphia as a destination for the urbane and upwardly mobile . . . [and] the tens of thousands of old-timers and newcomers whose high income and lifestyles aspirations have drawn big investments to these pricey zip codes . . . Cognitive Dissonance at the very least or Moral and Political Dissonance -:( _The Philadelphia Inquirer_, Sunday, March 2, 2014.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:56:20 +0000
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