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Two years after the official end of the Great Recession, Philadelphia has yet to recover. Our schools face cut after cut, we can’t find jobs, and our future looks bleak. A new report explains how these swaps put our schools and the City on the wrong side of declining interest rates and led them to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars.

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A Promise is a Promise, Senator Toomey

After months of pressuring Senator Toomey to sit down and hear from the concerns of Philadelphia’s 99%, five Fight For Philly community members were able to walk into the senator’s Philadelphia office and request—yet again—a meeting with Mr. Toomey.

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    Dec. 6-8, 2011: Fight for Philly Goes to Washington, DC to Take Back the Capitol
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    Nov. 17, 2011: 1,000 March with Fight for Philly onto the Market Street Bridge
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    Nov. 4, 2011: Fight for Philly Shows How Greed is Good (If You Can Spare $10,000)
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    Nov. 2, 2011: The 99% of Philadelphia Tell Senator Toomey: Quit Playing Games!
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    Oct. 21, 2011: Rep. Eric Cantor Is Forced to Cancel Speech About “[Making] Sure The People at the Top Stay There”
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    Oct. 13, 2011: Fight for Philly Volunteer Members Tour Blighted Neighborhoods and Foreclosed Homes
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    Oct. 13, 2011: Fight for Philly Calls Pat Toomey and Wells Fargo “Blind to Blight”
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    Oct. 10, 2011: Fight for Philly Mourns The Loss of Jobs in Philadelphia
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    Oct. 7, 2011: Fight for Philly Pitches a Tent, Starts Camping at Occupy Philly
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    Oct. 4, 2011: Fight for Philly Community Members Hold Vigil for Foreclosed Families
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    Sept. 22, 2011: Fight for Philly Highlights “Work That Needs Doing” in our Neighborhoods
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    Aug. 25, 2011: Fight for Philly Asks Senator Toomey: “Where Are The Jobs?”
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    Aug. 20, 2011: Fight for Philly Members Clean Up Our Neighborhoods
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    Aug. 18, 2011: Fight for Philly Marches with Hershey’s Student Workers
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    July 19, 2011: Philadelphians Heard Loud and Clear: We Need Jobs and a Good Future
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    June 23, 2011: Hundreds Take On Center City’s Biggest Banks and Corporations

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