Monday, December 03, 2012
"Questions surround $55 million program to cut violence in Chicago"
It is said that there are no coincidences in politics.
I can't imagine anyone thinking this is what the governor says it is.
Oh yeah. It's in Chicago...
I can't imagine anyone thinking this is what the governor says it is.
Oh yeah. It's in Chicago...
Scott Zamost, Drew Griffin, and Elizabeth Nunez of the CNN Special Investigations Unit have the details on this:
"On a chilly afternoon this fall, teenagers across Chicago's South Side were busy at work, earning $8.75 an hour to hand out fliers with a message of non-violence.
'Our message that we're giving out today is about being healthy,' said 18-year-old Lucia Eloisa. 'One of the key pointers is about taking time to reflect and seek inner peace.'
Eloisa's part-time job was paid for by an ambitious state-funded program to keep at-risk teenagers out of trouble. It pumped nearly $55 million into Chicago's toughest neighborhoods and three of its suburbs to stem unrelenting gang violence.
A four-month CNN investigation found that not only did the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI) pay teens to hand out fliers promoting inner peace, it also paid these at-risk teens to take field trips to museums, march in a parade with the governor, and even attend a yoga class to learn how to handle stress."
