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Support Tax Change Effort – Impacts Retired Teachers, Military and more

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DC Raises Taxes
on Retired Military,
Teachers, Others…

Support us by emailing your council
member today!

Nearly 40,000 retired military veterans,
postal workers, firefighters, police officers,
teachers and other federal and DC civil servants just lost
a tax benefit that DC repealed without notice.
The Pension Benefit Exclusion—a law in force for 57
years—allowed retired public servants to exclude $3000
from income when calculating their local taxes. The DC
Council repealed the exclusion without notice, surprising
many seniors when they filed their 2015 returns.

Support the effort by emailing your council member today!

For more information contact Sylvester Bush at Sylvester
202.Five Seven Five-1004 or email: [email protected]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/26/deborah-simmons-dc-raises-taxes-on-military-teache/

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Penn Branch Shopping Center Sold!

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Penn Branch Shopping Center Sold at Auction

A bid was accepted by CW Properties on August 10th.  The buyer has not been disclosed and may not for another 30 days.  At this point, we don’t know how the sale will impact the parking lot repairs in process or the merchants and seniors who have raised concerns about the duration of the repairs.

Penn Branch members along with several others community leaders and members have been working for several months to advocate for changes to Penn Branch Shopping Center and along Pennsylvania Avenue East.  For more information, please email us at: [email protected]

We look forward to collaborating with the new owners and neighbors from all areas to move east of the river forward!

Sold at Auction - Penn Branch Shopping Center
Sold at Auction – Penn Branch Shopping Center

April 12 Guest Speaker: Raymond Bell, H.O.P.E. Project

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We’re pleased to also have as our guest at the April 12 Penn Branch Citizens Civic Association meeting, Raymond Bell, founder of Project H.O.P.E. which located on the second floor of the Penn Branch Shopping Center.

Raymond Bell 

Raymond E. Bell is the founder of R. Emmanuel Bell Consulting, a training and facilitation company. Mr. Bell is a social entrepreneur, keynote speaker and facilitator. He is devoted to teaching and coaching young adults how to become I.T. professionals. Through his workshops, courses and coaching programs Mr. Bell shows young adults how to get out of the unemployment line and on a career path.

Raymond’s passion is to empower young people to take ownership and control of their own destiny. In 2009 Bell founded The H.O.P.E. Project, also known as the “Harvard of the Hood”, an I.T. career training program. The H.O.P.E. Project has been called one of the best I.T. career training programs in the country by the President of the Help Desk Institute (HDI). Graduates earn an average annual salary of $43,000, working on major government contracts, such as Lockheed Martin, World Bank and CACI.

Mr. Bell is considered one of the leading experts on I.T. career training and workforce development in the United States. Mr. Bell has received numerous awards for his work including the 2014 R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center Innovator of the Year, 2014 BDPA Washington DC Chapter Member of the Year, 2012 National Black Caucus of State Legislators, Nation Builder Award Recipient, for his outstanding work developing world class I.T. professionals.

Raymond Bell has been seen on and/or featured in Ebony, ABC, CBS, WHUR, NewOne Now, Bloomberg News, Washington Post, National Public Radio, National Journal, BET and many other media outlets.
RaymondBell.com, GetAJobIn30Days.com, HopeProjectDC.org

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