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In Chicago, an estimated 45,000 teens and young adults are not in school, college, or the workforce; That’s roughly 15% of the city’s 16- to 24-year-old residents. City leaders and experts have long seen reengaging these young people — whom they call “Opportunity Youth” — as crucial to addressing poverty, racial inequities, and gun violence. But overall, Chicago’s programs are often fragmented and lack the big-picture vision and coordination between nonprofits and government agencies that experts say are key to success.
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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Since the article mentions “ racial inequities” can I assume this is just another program targeted at black youth that, when the day is over, amounts to no more than another dark hole that money disappears into?
Here is what 3 decades of what’s going on here has done to Johannesburg. Is this Chicago’s and other cities fate? Less than 30 years of inclusion/diversity and equity. Will we learn from others about the mistakes they made? I think not!
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-29-dei-johannesburg-south-africa-collapse-crumbling-hellscape.html
Comments are way at the bottom of the article.
Basically the City needs to be the butt kicking father these kids never had. It’s an impossible task.
Some of them are working, just not at a normal job. They are using the only skills they were taught in school.
Maybe they are da gang bangers jumping on cars on Michigan Avenue?!