[NEWS] Amid recession and state cuts, Nutter's anti-poverty efforts find success

From NewsWorks: 

NewsWorks Tonight has been looking at Mayor Michael Nutter's legacy in several key areas affecting Philadelphia.

In the fifth installment of our seven-part series, we examine the efforts to ease poverty, with Judith Levine, associate professor of sociology at Temple University, and Laura Weinbaum, vice president for public affairs and strategic initiatives at Project HOME. She also serves on the board of the Homeless Advocacy Project.

Though Philadelphia ranks as the most impoverished of the nation’s 10 largest cities and the one with the most deep poverty, Levine notes that, compared with other cities, it actually fared better during the recession.

“Its spike in poverty was not as high, and it has recovered better. Some of the other big cities are way up in poverty, like Phoenix, New York and Los Angeles, whereas we’re back to almost where we were pre-recession,” she said.