Is the City of Philadelphia’s Deferred Retirement Option Program being misused?
Is the City of Philadelphia’s Deferred Retirement Option Program being misused? DROP was originally intended to help the City to retain its most experienced workers, but in the past year elected officials have begun signing up. We’ll talk with ZACK STALBERG the President and CEO of The Committee of Seventy which called for the audit of the program which is now underway, BILL GREEN a Philadelphia City Councilman who plans to introduce a bill banning future elected officials from DROP, and BOB EDDIS the Past President of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police about why the program is still needed.
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