Chaka Fattah Case Study

When taking on the job as a Representative you will face issues and downfalls, but how you react in making change shows how fit you are in the political business. Chaka Fattah has faced many issues, but what seems to be a major problem in the Philadelphia County are these four issues here: Education, Health, Housing, and Infrastructure. First, education in Philadelphia has always been a struggle with the lack of books that are funded for the school, but the main reason for this is that there is an educational gap between communities, meaning the more wealthy neighborhoods have to essentials to provide the students. Fattah states “However, we still have not solved one of the most persistent and pervasive injustices in our educational system: poorer communities …show more content…
Fattah has designed a program by the name of GEAR UP that is a federal grant that increases the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in college. “GEAR UP provides five-year grants to states and partnerships to provide services at schools with at least 50% low-income students.” Secondly, healthcare is an issue even though some people obtain healthcare through jobs, buy insurance yourself or even through small business that desire to provide healthcare for their employees. But, there is also that percentage that doesn’t have that so Chaka Fattah enforces the Affordable Act that reduces the premium cost for millions of families and small businesses that cannot afford healthcare. Thirdly, Housing has been an issue since the recession. Citizens have been feeling that downturn since the unemployment rate has increased in the previous years. The housing prices have declined vastly while the foreclosure signs have increased which is a detrimental to Philadelphia itself because that shows that more people are homeless rather than