No, not like THAT. He's testifying today today at Council's finance committee, on the need for domestic partners to be given the same benefits as married couples when it comes to the city's real estate transfer tax and his plan for prisoner re-entry. It's at 1:30 p.m.-ish.
Nutter's been a supporter of tax treatment for domestic partners that equals that of married couples, a big issue for gay voters. In March, he told the Liberty City Democratic Club that he'd support an ordinance that would fix a provision of the City’s domestic partnership law that had been struck down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. From the press release:
Nutter was the original author of that law, which passed in 1998. “This new ordinance will further ensure fair and equitable treatment of domestic partners in Philadelphia,” he noted.
As to prisoner re-entry, he's got a lengthy plan for that. And if you are really interested, he's got the video of his announcement of it.
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If you are into an inescapable extinct without untouched nourishment. Then the mayoral debate between Larry and Moe 10/20 - 7:30 pm on CBS 3 is your physical sensation toward who'll fit any and all related declines. Personally it isn't a inward fulfilling for me to give up a Saturday evening to watch Michael Nutter and Al Taubenberger attempt to charm the public with rumination or feasible for me to miss my religious orgin observing 10/21 - 11 am , because of the debate being a re-run on the Philly CW channel.
Some lengthy prisoner re-entry garble. How many returning inmates will understand this type of verbiage. Sounds like its laced with portrayals.
Posted by Jasper Zeigler Jr | October 18, 2007 10:46 AM
Idiot!
Posted by Anonymous | October 19, 2007 9:09 PM
Here is the "garble". Save this so when you get caught up and do time or a member of your family does time, you can have some hope...if you can read "garble"
MICHAEL NUTTER’S PRISONER RE-ENTRY TAX CREDIT PLAN
Recent research by the National Academy of Science demonstrates that employment is the strongest predictor of whether an adult ex-prisoner will return to prison. Yet, finding and keeping a job can be a nearly impossible challenge for many ex-prisoners. Many employers express a reasonable concern over the perceived risks of hiring workers with little or no prior work experience and a criminal record compounds those perceived risks. This situation places ex-prisoners in a tragic Catch-22: a job may keep them from going back to prison but that can’t get a job because they once were in prison. Checking the box at the top of an application asking about criminal records often precludes them from even being considered for a job.
We need a way out of this dead-end street. We need a way to share the costs of hiring ex-prisoners with willing employers in order to provide more ex-prisoners with immediate and rewarding employment in real jobs. Increasing employment will decrease recidivism and improve the life prospects of ex-prisoners, their families, and their neighborhoods.
TAX CREDIT OFFSET FROM BUSINESS PRIVILEGE TAX
I propose a new $10,000 per year tax credit for employers to hire up to 1000 ex-prisoners at an annual cost of $10 million. The Philadelphia Re-entry Employment Program (PREP) tax credit would be taken against the employer’s Business Privilege Tax liability. The tax credit would be awarded to employers who hire certified ex-prisoners released from the Philadelphia Prison System or other correctional facilities at specified wage and benefit levels and retain these employees for at least six months and up to three years. The value of the credit would be used to defray the wage and benefit costs of the employee, to finance the basic education and job training advancement of the employee, and to fund an array of retention services for the employee.
The Mayor’s Office for the Re-Entry of Ex-Offenders, the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation, the Philadelphia Prison System, and the various area chambers of commerce would form a new partnership to implement PREP. Pending release from their period of sentence in the Philadelphia Prison System, prisoners will be encouraged to participate in the re-entry employment program. Prisoners who express a desire to participate will be assessed in terms of the education and job training level and the housing and family situation to which they expect to be returning upon release in Philadelphia. A package of basic education and job training and retention and support services will be designed for each participant.
The Mayor’s Office for Re-entry will work with the state’s CareerLink programs to match employees and employers. The Mayor’s Office for Re-entry will work with the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation to hold classes for parole and probation officers to inform them about available services for ex-prisoners at the CareerLink centers. The City Law Department will work with the Philadelphia Bar Association to make legal resources available to eligible ex-offenders who want to expunge or seal their criminal records, as allowed under Pennsylvania law. Employers hiring employees certified as eligible for the BPT tax credit will receive the credit after the employee has remained employed for six months and throughout the employee’s period of employment thereafter for up to 36 months. The employer will receive a pro rata share of the $10,000 credit for any tax year during which the employee is employed for less than 12 months, after the initial six month minimum period.
As a condition of receiving the tax credit, employer must provide a benefit package that includes at least $2000 in tuition supports for GED, Community College courses, or other vocational training. As a condition of eligibility, employees must participate in life skills and basic financial management, as well as meet all of their outstanding child support and other obligations. After three years, the employee would be expected to repay a small portion of the funds expended in the tax credit to support its expansion. The repayment would be based on a sliding income scale and in no case would it be more than 5 percent of the employee’s annual earnings and would not last longer than the period of the employee’s participation in the tax credit program.
Posted by Fellow Philadelphian | October 19, 2007 9:13 PM