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Councilmember Allan Domb's remarks at the Poverty Action Plan Press Conference held Tuesday, March 3, 2020.
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A
Good
afternoon,
I'd
like
to
thank
council
president
Clark
and
councilmember
Aquino
de
Sanchez
for
their
leadership
on
the
Philippi
of
poverty,
Action
Plan
and
everyone's
standing
behind
me
today,
who
fought
to
get
this
done
and
everyone
out
in
the
audience
and
I
see
many
people
who
had
all
the
meetings
did
a
lot
of
work
and
really
we
all
thank
you
for
your
efforts.
I
think
was
I.
Think
councilman
Sanchez
did
a
great
job
in
leading
those
committees.
So
thank
you.
A
You
know
for
the
first
time
that
I've
seen
we
have
all
of
City
Council
and
administration's
attention
to
address
an
issue
that
has
created
an
unacceptable
situation
for
our
people
and
our
city.
Recently,
by
the
way,
we
did
an
independent
study
completing
the
survey
of
surveying,
the
top
50
US
cities,
showing
the
local
tax
burden
on
each
city's
workers.
Sadly,
and
embarrassingly,
Philadelphia
was
number
one.
We
tax
lower
income
people
the
highest
and
the
major
cause
is
our
city
wage
tax.
A
Just
last
week,
city
council
took
action
and
passed
the
wage
tax
refund
bill
that
will
help
60,000
households
comprising
of
150
thousand
low-income
Philadelphians.
This
bill
will
provide
810
dollars
per
year
to
those
households
and
in
three
years
it
will
increase
to
thirteen
hundred.
This
bill
will
allow
Philadelphians,
who
have
been
struggling
to
get
out
of
poverty
with
the
opportunity
to
get
back
their
hard-earned
wages.
They
paid
the
city
in
taxes,
in
addition
to
the
wage
tax
refund.
A
Last
year,
we
actually
left
463
million
dollars
in
mostly
federal
benefits
on
the
table
from
Earned
Income
Tax
Credit
to
snap
food
stamps
to
Medicaid.
This
is
money
that
hundreds
of
thousands
of
Philadelphians
could
benefit
from
to
pay
bills
and
put
food
on
their
table
and
I,
know:
city
council,
the
administration
we're
going
to
address
increasing
the
refunds
to
those
people
that
deserve
this
money
philadelphians
and
by
the
way
council.
President
Clark
I
was
standing
here
and
saying
to
myself
a
hundred
thousand
people
out
of
poverty.
A
I
had
the
good
fortune
of
meeting
with
Charmaine,
and
she
explained
to
me.
The
numbers
I
just
want
to
share
those
with
you,
because
I
think
we
can
do
this
to
take
a
hundred
thousand
people
out
of
poverty.
The
average
household
is
two
point,
or
so
we
need
40,000
jobs
over
the
next
four
years,
10,000
jobs
a
year.
We
should
be
able
to
accomplish
that
I'm,
proud
to
see
city,
council,
mayor
Kenny's
administration
and
our
citywide
partners
moving
forward
to
resolve
this
issue
of
poverty
as
a
unified
group.