VOTE

FAREEDA MABRY

Candidate for Pennsylvania

185th Legislative District

**APRIL 2012**

WHY AM I RUNNING?

If communities do not have strong representatives that listen to the voice of the people, you end up with representatives that dictate their own goals and agendas, represent special interest groups that give them money, or worse yet ineffective representatives that are controlled by stronger political wills, not the best interest of the community they serve.

Home is where my heart is! The same issues that affect everyday people are the same ones that affect me...job loss, transportation, health care, affordable housing, high utility cost, accessibility to resources, cost of food, crime, business and economic development...the list goes on!

Fareeda works to move society ideals forward while working to make her community a better place for all people to live in, no matter their pockets or political affiliation.

RESPECTING THE PAST.

WORKING FOR THE PRESENT.

AND REACHING FOR THE FUTURE...

We need Progress...

We Need Fareeda Mabry

THE PLATFORM:

Education:

Child care and early childhood education can be burdensome for many working families and a hindrance to low income and single parents from re-entering the workforce.

Investing in workers by investing in their children.

• Increase funding, resources and support for the School Districts.
• Increases in early childhood education subsidies.
• Support Increased training opportunities and resources for Teachers and Administrators.
• Increase incentives for teacher and student retention.
• Provide additional support to students with learning, physical, mental and/or emotional disabilities.
• Provide additional support to low income and single parented households.
• Support programs that are focused on assisting children who have been in the foster care system, whose parents are incarcerated and also those who have lost a parent to a violent crime.
• Support a Curriculum change to ensure our children are able to compete in the global economy.
• Investing in community colleges, and technical schools, with focus on developing and sustaining their connections with the business community to ensure employment after training.
• Funding needs to be restored to education programs that have been proven to be successful, give Pennsylvania students a head start.

Business & Economic Development:

Pennsylvania needs to be able to compete globally. My focus for Pennsylvania is business expansion and job creation. Focus needs to be on easing the financial burdens to PA families and businesses. Pennsylvanian workers should enter the workforce with the skills, training and resources needed by employers in this high tech world. There must be targeted and strategic development and incentives to get Pennsylvania back to work.

• Enact incentives for entrepreneurs, small businesses and inventors to keep their products produced in Pennsylvania.
• Tougher laws that increase protection for displaced workers from discrimination.
• Increase sustainability efforts.
• Market and Promote Community & Historical Value with the goal in mind to bring more homeowners and entrepreneurs to live, work and play.
• Increase accessibility to professional licenses and permits.
• Encourage minority and women business owners.
• Partner with Community and Commercial Development Corporations.
• Partner with the Small Business Development Organizations.
• Build resources for training, employment, mentor ship, apprenticeship and entrepreneurs.
• Develop specialized task force that provide employment information and training opportunities, also building relationships with businesses and trade organizations that can support a specialized population. The team would be focused on targeting under-trained, laid-off, unemployed, under-employed, previously incarcerated, and youth.
• Working with established businesses, corporations and community colleges to create summer youth employment programs an initiative to combat flash mobs and recidivism in the juvenile justice system.
• Strategies to encourage trade and focus on bringing industry back to Pennsylvania and restoring the working class.
• Create Home ownership programs and incentives.
• Enact laws that prohibit the use of credit scores in employment decisions.
• Establish new Job Creation Tax Credit programs and Job Training tax Credits
• Targeting Veterans, Displaced Workers, Men and Women who return from incarceration, Recent Graduates and Job Training Opportunities.

Community Revitalization:

Pennsylvania needs a long term and comprehensive transportation and roads plan, this would also create jobs for Pennsylvania.

• Pennsylvania is the nation leading in bridges. We have 5200 bridges that are structurally deficient; more than 7,000 miles of state roads are in unsafe and hazardous conditions.
• Partnering with the local streets and highway departments.
• Build more supermarkets in the area.
• Create Community Gardens where the community can come and grow their own food.
• Create More Parks and Playgrounds and other recreational opportunities.
• Increase sustainability efforts.
• Work with developers and investors to make sure Seniors have access to supermarkets, transportation, businesses and health care professionals.
• 
  

Crime & Gun Violence and Recidivism:

• Create more youth programs, focusing on stopping problems before they start.
• Create more venues for recreation and for youth to get involved.
• Open Licenses for low level and first time offenders- Nursing etc.
• Focus on Pre-Release Issues.
• Focus on cracking down on straw purchasers.
• Provide additional resources and support for those who have been incarcerated, or those who have drug and alcohol abuse.
  
• Focus on job development & specialized training