Two years in, what’s the state of Kenney’s soda-tax funded pre-K program?
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philly.comPosted Jan 4, 2019, 8:27 PM UTC
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philly.comThe "journalist" who wrote this piece didn't fact check. PHL preK DOES have income thresholds. All she would have had to do is plug some numbers into the PHL preK website eligibility calculator.
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PHLpreK is available to 3 and 4 year old children who reside in the City of Philadelphia. You are likely eligible to enroll your child for the PHLpreK 2018-19 academic year if:
- Your child has turned 3 or 4 by September 1, 2018
- You are a resident of Philadelphia
There are no income or employment requirements
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Riddle me this then, why is there an elegibility assistance calculator on THAT page if it's free. Unless they use the same web page developers as SEPTA, it doesnt make sense.
Also, if it's true it's free for everyone, why doesn't the calculator say we are qualified?
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Are you putting the age below 3? If I put my income as $1,000,000 for a family of 2, I still qualify. But if I select anything under 3, then I don't.
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Almost positive I put 3. But it's not out of the realm of possibility. If that's the case, then I'm wrong and I apologize. I'll have to re input once I'm back from picking my daughter up from daycare.
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The page uses the same calculator that is used for other early ed programs that are income-restricted, like Head Start and Pre-K Counts. No idea why, it’s stupid, but that’s what I found out last year when i was trying to get my son enrolled.
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Why did you decide to lie about the income requirement?
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Ok dude. Don't believe me.
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Forced me to discover Costco. Thank you
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Looks like the initiative is working, and really at what cost to you? Even attempting to address deep poverty of our city and a little less soda will only do you and your family good.
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That money is right next to the 35 million they 'lost' last summer. Regressive taxes like the ones on cigarettes, soda, and wages are just another way to gentrify the city on the backs of the working people
The fact that I have to pay federal taxes to subsidize soda companies, and then pay an extra sales tax on top of that to give that company my money is nothing short of criminal.
Remember when the City Wage tax was 'temporary'? Yeah, me too.
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working class people, the ones with the lowest access to quality food sources, experience the highest level of obesity and diabetes which lead to a myriad of other issues including cancer. You're right, the working people deserve their daily doses of poison. Your post makes it sound like working people NEED soda and cigarettes when there's a myriad of evidence to prove how bad this is and how your exact argument has been used the opposite way- that shitty food and health conditions are an intentional way to suppress the poor and working class. So which is it then? Because people of the same ideology will say the same conflicting things, as long as the working class are victims of the scenario.
You SHOULD be pissed that your federal taxes subsidize soda companies as well as beef, GMO corn, soy and wheat that all make products that have had a detrimental effect on the American populous, especially poor and working class people. Not a soda tax that, for all intentions, is partly an initiative to decrease soda consumption. Of course it's flawed- I'm not gonna argue you on that- but to say those taxed products hurt the working class ignores the reality that those products disproportionately have a negative impact on the people you're championing and are directly associated with healthcare costs.
Working class, rich or poor nobody NEEDS soda or cigarettes. That argument doesn't work. The amount of money that a working class person can save on not buying cigarettes is at least a month's worth of rent vs the cost of a heath-adverse addiction to nicotine and sugar.
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Found the guy that doesn't work for a living.
No one "needs" Starbucks or craft beers, either. Why should my tax dollars subsidize self-righteous hipsters at the expense of the rest of the City?
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100 years from now, society will look back in horror that we gave sugar to kids. It will be like how we think about child labor 100 years ago
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100 years ago we could buy cocaine at corner stores, now we have to buy it outside of the corner store
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Yes, the shuddering thought when I hear a child call sugar water dyed purple or red "juice"
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Anyone else sick of paying for the losers?
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