Poll Question Did you know that welding jobs pay $19.34 an hour with eight months of training required? Click here to answer

Our Solutions: Find Good Jobs & Careers There are options for good jobs and careers available for young adults after high school. They include: four year or two-year college, apprenticeship programs, one-year certificate programs and more. My office is working to increase awareness of the options including skilled trades. Young adults should consider their path beyond high school. We created this Branches to Success card with more information to show students and their parents more educational possibilities to a successful career. We created this with more information to show students and their parents the possibilities of many different educational paths to a successful career.

Year in Review—2019

Happy New Year! As we look ahead to the 2020 Year of Justice, there are a few highlights from 2019 to mention:

• The passage of $15 million each year in additional funding for affordable housing statewide.
• Completing the Poverty Listening Tour and release of the Poverty Report and Recommendations.
• Served 2,075 constituents and my office hosted 30 outreach events for expungement, energy grants, Back to School Festival, citizen advocacy training, and more.

My office will continue this momentum through the 2020 Year of Justice initiatives with a focus on social, economic, and environmental justice. The 2020 Year of Justice includes: reducing poverty, fighting for retirement dignity, opposing over incarceration, and addressing climate change. Please take the pledge with my office to become a Year of Justice champion. We cannot do this work without you.

MLK Day

Martin Luther King said, “Life’s most urgent and persistent question is ‘what are you doing for others?’”  MLK Day is one of action for my office, with three events related to the 2020 Year of Justice. For economic justice, we are hosting a McRaise the Wage Town Hall with POWER at Uncle Bobbie’s Café and Books from 12-12:30 p.m., followed by a march to McDonald’s and rally at 29 E. Chelten Avenue at 12:30 p.m. Please join us.

Mentoring Conference

January is National Mentoring Month. On 25 January, we will host our third annual Mentoring Conference at La Salle University. This year’s conference will announce the first round of mentoring grant recipients and include training and networking. There will also be a featured panel discussion on Mindfulness and Mentorship, Trauma Informed Mentoring and more. The opportunities for youth are limitless, and we want to expand them through positive mentoring activities.

Upcoming Events

20 January – 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. – Voter Registration Challenge Event – Girard College, 2101 S. College Avenue, Philadelphia PA

20 January – 12:00-12:30 p.m. – McRaise the Wage Town Hall – Uncle Bobbie’s Café & Books, 5445 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia PA

20 January – 12:30-1:30 p.m. – McRaise the Wage March/Rally – Start at Uncle Bobbie’s Café & Books, and end at McDonald’s, 29 E. Chelten Avenue

25 January – 8:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – Third Annual Mentoring Conference – La Salle University, Founder’s Hall Atrium, 1 Penn Boulevard, Philadelphia

Be the Light,

Art Haywood
State Senator
4th District

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