Rep. Jared G. Solomon June 25, 2019 | 4:52 PM
When my colleagues and I announced the Philadelphia Platform for this legislative session, we said that poverty was the biggest issue we needed to address and that we would fight for dozens of proposals that could bend poverty to our collective will. Specifically, we put forward four policy planks that we feel can do that: Workforce Development & Education, Commercial Corridors, Criminal Justice, and Infrastructure and Exports.
If we use those planks as a report card, this budget in my view gets the following marks:
Moreover, since reducing poverty is our North Star, the fact that this budget strips General Assistance to the poorest Pennsylvanians and fails to raise the minimum wage (stuck at $7.25 for ten years now) is deeply troubling and disappointing to me. We have a good economy, a budget surplus, and it is not even an election year but the only compensation this budget raises is our own (members of the House of Representatives’ compensation is going up nearly 7% in this budget). For those reasons I voted no on this budget.
Please come join me at my Town Hall on July 18 at 6 p.m. at Jardel Rec. Center to discuss more about the budget and why I voted the way I did. Thank you.
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