Every job I’ve had they’ve lumped the PTO and sick time together. It’s great when you’re healthy that year and can use it all as vacation but sucks when you need to take off for being sick.

If it's your money on the line it gives you an incentive to not break the bail agreements. When you just let people out for free or have a comically low amount for a crime where the person knows their life could be over then they will act much more reckless.

It's not fair, but it's even less fair to the majority of the city that isn't committing violent crimes especially the people in the poor neighborhoods where they are being sent back into.

Shit was already falling apart we just went from doing the bare minimum of upkeep and maintenance to saying "don't look at it, it's fine."

If our infrastructure was in good shape before it wouldn't have been able to fall apart in just 4 years.

How are they supposed to pay their executives 7 figures if they have to provide things like sanitary dining halls?

It seems like they went downhill drastically very recently. I was a paying subscriber to them for a long time and thought they were by far the best coverage of the city but just recently cancelled.

Is he there to “suck up headlines” or is he just pissed that the city that was in its best shape in history when he left in 2016 has reversed most of its progress?

This is just a problem with capitalism across the board and isn’t only limited to universities. Grad students and actual studies don’t bring in money while sports and recruiting new students do. Simple as that

$10 an hour if you’re assuming 40 hour weeks - most grad students are putting in significantly more time than that.

People work for SEPTA? Could’ve fooled me

Then you’re just gonna have stolen bikes and still be walking

Great planning by the city, lets shut down the public transport right after an eagles Super Bowl game and then act like were the bad guys for climbing a few poles while trapped there

Correct and being bad at your job is not an impeachable offense. Would open up a Pandora’s box of shit

Wow awesome link thank you. Didn’t realize that - so we are actually trying. It’s just a little harder to actually build things than ti say we should build them.

Nobody pushed all the non whites out. They left because they cannot afford it. So maybe let’s help these communities build up and earn higher paying jobs or we can blame the people that moved in once it was nice. But the first one takes effort so let’s blame an entire race that just wanted to move to a cool area.

Yes, you are a racist by saying white people shouldn’t be able to move into your town.

Oh god the horror the neighborhoods got wealthier. New Yorkers were def moving into shitty areas driving prices up and not just moving there after the areas already became attraction spots.

Or…the area gets gentirified first then wealthy people move in. But then that would mean some Philadelphians actually wanted these safe areas with lots to do. Hard concept to grasp I know but if you want a cheap home you can live in central PA or West Virginia. If it’s all about price why aren’t these areas getting flooded with people?

https://i.imgur.com/dinyxar.jpg

This might help. Hold on to your seat though because you’re not gonna believe that center city (you know, where all the jobs are) increased in wealth more than North Philly.

So as a journalist would you discuss the reasons why their are more higher paying jobs in business districts than in areas that have been flooded with violence. Would it make sense that the few jobs in this area got even worse because nobody wants to go there let alone shop there? And maybe the lawyer on market street doesn’t have the same issue?

Mind you - I didn’t mention race once there. Once you start grouping people together then the logical discussion is over.

I’m guessing you mean you want them building apartments right? Cause that’s the right idea but half the city would have a panic attack if you knocked down 10 of their precious row homes to build a 50 unit apartment. Literally just happened in west Philly and this sub was mostly with the protestors.

If you want denser housing that means we need to say fuck single family row homes. Sorry, the look cool when taken care of but they’re impractical and overpriced.

Because they’re probably not trained analyst who know what their doing with the data and know to use contrasting colors. You can tell because the first thing they teach you is that correlation does not equal causation. But when you have a narrative to push you can find whatever you want to make it fit.

First off just remove black people from the sentence and replace it with the long time residents. They are not being forced out because they are black so acting like that is a valid argument is disingenuous at best. Maybe 60 years ago but the girl who inherited a home in a great area is not a victim.

Now that we peeled that off - the long term residents are absolutely benefiting because a) their home prices are going up b) the area is becoming safer and c) businesses create opportunity to get better jobs than if they were stuck in a war zone looking area.

Next, let’s change the venture capitalists to a word like investor because for some reason you act like a venture capitalist is an evil word. Investors fund people who wouldn’t be able to otherwise afford it to start their business. Without these kinds of investors the only person who can start a business is someone already wealthy. So the investors give out loans because the area is improving and they think they will make a profit.

The business owners receiving the loans get a chance to make their dreams come true and you start to see small stores and resteraunts flourish. Better businesses mean more people want to go there and live there which means the price will go up because we don’t build enough. So people that are struggling decide to sell their home, not forced out of it, and move back to an area similar to where they started.

The opportunities were there and even if they couldn’t take advantage they likely still made a killing on their home value. Everyone is better off except for the selfish people who wanted the area to stay shitty because they wanted to stay there for cheap.

If you want more black people to be successful in these scenarios encourage them to be the ones who start the small shops and stores when things start getting better. Teach them that investors can help them and they’re not evil all the time. People like Kevin Hart that actually do this in poor neighborhoods are hero’s and people like you are helping ruin their futures.

And then she complains about having to move to one of the less developed neighborhoods in the article LOL. It’s like a parody but actually sad because these are the people voting against helping their own neighborhoods. Places are expensive because people want to live there and cheap because people don’t.

The article tries to make me feel bad about the girl who inherited a home in a booming part of the city because prices went up as it got nicer.

The race part is completely irrelevant because she is the one who is privileged not the people who wanted to buy a house with their hard earned money. If I inherited a house that could go for mid 6 figures atleast because of that location I would be MUCH better off than I am now with my pretty decent job but paying to live.

They took a story about an entitled girl (who was handed something a lot of us will never be able to afford) complaining about inflation. If anything the one complaining about white people moving into her neighborhood is a racist.