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Philadelphia, which is on pace for its deadliest year in decades, could see an expansion of funding for anti-violence measures in a 2021-2022 city budget proposed Tuesday by Mayor Jim Kenney.
Yet the increase to $36 million for programs ranging from early intervention initiatives for at-risk young people to job training and neighborhood cleanups still pales in comparison to other new spending in Kenney's budget.
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Street paving, for instance, would receive $100 million in new funding, bringing to $132 million the amount spent on fixing potholes in the new fiscal year that starts July 1.