Congressman Fattah, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and International President of NCCEP Hector Garza, with students from Friendship Charter Academy in Washington, DC celebrating National GEAR UP Day.

Congressman Fattah describes the new $1 billion Emergency Homeowners Relief Fund mortgage assistance program that he authored, during a news conference at the Philadelphia Unemployment Project (PUP) on August 18, 2010. The news conference also featured Senator Bob Casey, D-PA (not shown), as well as John Dodds, PUP executive director, and Adena Holder of West Philadelphia, who described her success story with emergency mortgage assistance under Pennsylvania's Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program, which Fattah guided into state law in 1983. (Photo Credit Office of Congressman Fattah)