Cherelle Parker: “A quarter of our citizens are living in poverty.”

“They can go around and around and around in a circle telling you about a problem, but they are very, very, very short on delivering solutions. They will. It's a thing. They will begin to remind us that, yes, it's true A quarter of our citizens are living in poverty. That despite the progress in lowering the number of homicides, we still have far too many senseless shootings, too much gun violence, and too many illegal guns on the streets of Philadelphia.” (33:21–33:25)

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