#9-Look Up and Challenge Poverty With Episcopal Community Services Chief of Programs Arley Styer MSS MSLP

According to a report from the Pew Charitable Trust Organization  "Poverty is one of Philadelphia’s most enduring problems. At 25.7 percent, the poverty rate is the highest among the nation’s 10 largest cities. About 400,000 residents—including roughly 37 percent of the city’s children under the age of 18—live below the federal poverty line, which is $19,337 in annual income for an adult living with two children. And nearly half of all poor residents are in deep poverty, defined as 50 percent below the federal poverty line."(https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2017/11/pri_philadelphias_poor.pdf) Episcopal Community Services has made it their mission to try to solve this problem. On this episode of the Podcast we speak to Arley Styer MSS MSLP, Chief of Programs, at Episcopal Community Services. She outlines how we, as a city, can change the culture of poverty in Philadelphia