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Philadelphia City Council votes to create a nonprofit fund aimed at pulling 100,000 out of poverty

Philadelphia City Council passed a pair of bills Thursday that would create a nonprofit fund with $10 million to tackle poverty in the nation’s poorest big city.

Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez, shown here in her district last year, sponsored an ordinance passed Thursday to create the Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund.
Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez, shown here in her district last year, sponsored an ordinance passed Thursday to create the Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer