8th District Council candidates on how to stop the middle class exodus

    Taxes, business and education. Those three words about sum up the responses from Philadelphia’s 8th District Council candidates when asked how to stop the middle class exodus from the Northwest neighborhoods.

    The question is the first of 10 we’re publishing that comes directly from an 8th District debate we cohosted last month. Candidates Cindy Bass, Bill Durham, Andrew Lofton, Greg Paulmier, Robin Tasco, Howard Treatman and Verna Tyner weighed in on how’s they work to stop and prevent families from leaving the area.

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