Shared Prosperity Philadelphia
Abstract
In January 2013, Mayor Nutter issued an executive order calling for a strategic approach to reducing poverty in Philadelphia and establishing the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) to coordinate the efforts of local public, private and nonprofit agencies. Although the poverty rate had recently reached a high of 28% as the city struggled to recover from recession, it had been growing steadily for two generations. CEO listened to hundreds of stakeholders who told us that there is no single path to reducing poverty and that we should focus on a cluster of issues that have the potential to increase opportunity for the city’s lowest income residents. They underscored that high-quality early learning must be part of the city’s anti- poverty agenda. The result is Shared Prosperity Philadelphia: Our Plan to Fight Poverty. One of its five goals is ensuring that all children start kindergarten ready to learn (www.sharedprosperityphila.org)
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