• Chicagos summer-job program aimed at taking kids off the streets has been a massive success.
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[QUOTE]In a year full of distressing stories — especially about race, crime and violence in urban neighborhoods — this one points to some hope. Earlier this December, we covered a summer jobs program in Chicago that appeared to lead to fewer teenage arrests for violent crime. Our original story, republished below, also reminds us that policy solutions are possible — and possibly even inexpensive. A couple of years ago, the city of Chicago started a summer jobs program for teenagers attending high schools in some of the city's high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. The program was meant, of course, to connect students to work. But officials also hoped that it might curb the kinds of problems — like higher crime — that arise when there's no work to be found. Research on the program conducted by the University of Chicago Crime Lab and just published in the journal Science suggests that these summer jobs have actually had such an effect: Students who were randomly assigned to participate in the program had 43 percent fewer violent-crime arrests over 16 months, compared to students in a control group. That number is striking for a couple of reasons: It implies that a relatively short (and inexpensive) intervention like an eight-week summer jobs program can have a lasting effect on teenage behavior. And it lends empirical support to a popular refrain by advocates: "Nothing stops a bullet like a job."[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/26/chicago-gave-hundreds-of-high-risk-kids-a-summer-job-violent-crime-arrests-plummeted/[/url]
Our murder rates have been quite normal for the last few decades really. Just the news reports on it more in certain neighborhoods. But its good, we're still not Rockford.
amazing, so maybe if teen unemployment wasn't double digit we might see a drop in crime other places
Should adopt it nationwide.
[QUOTE=SirZoloft;46808775]But its good, we're still not Rockford.[/QUOTE] Hey... Our murder rates are down too! Just not burglary...or assault....or unlawful discharge of a firearm...or property theft.... shush
This reminds me of that whole Depression era program of creating jobs for those without them. Just hire some people to do little odd jobs all over the city like picking up trash, building parks, etc. Wish this was a nationwide program for teens and young adults.
I wonder if such a program could be adapted to includes programs based on broken window theory. Such as repairing damage to buildings and infastructure, cleaning up streets of gang symbolism, and working around just overall whitewashing neighborhoods.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46810572]I wonder if such a program could be adapted to includes programs based on broken window theory. Such as repairing damage to buildings and infastructure, cleaning up streets of gang symbolism, and working around just overall whitewashing neighborhoods.[/QUOTE] It'd help give people a connection with their community, I think its a great idea.
If young adults had little jobs to clean up parks and the city then overall morale would rise in people and make it more enjoyable.
[QUOTE=Deng;46810125]Should adopt it nationwide.[/QUOTE] shutup you commie pinko
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46810572]I wonder if such a program could be adapted to includes programs based on broken window theory. Such as repairing damage to buildings and infrastructure, cleaning up streets of gang symbolism, and working around just overall whitewashing neighborhoods.[/QUOTE] I know a lot of areas around here that could use something like that. The problem is finding people who give enough of a shit about their community to do it.
Not to mention the budget for it
Surprise. When the government spends money and directly hires people, there are fewer unemployed people.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46812446]Surprise. When the government spends money and directly hires people, there are fewer unemployed people.[/QUOTE] The title would lead you to believe that, wouldn't it? Read the article before you post. These kids only held jobs for 8 weeks and after 16 months they've committed far less violent crime than their peers.
[QUOTE=valkery;46812921]The title would lead you to believe that, wouldn't it? Read the article before you post. These kids only held jobs for 8 weeks and after 16 months they've committed far less violent crime than their peers.[/QUOTE] Yes, and it makes you wonder what a proper national unemployment program would do to decrease the crime rate. This is a giant middle finger to all the people who think government is useless and can't fix anything.
[QUOTE=mark6789;46811308]If young adults had little jobs to clean up parks and the city then overall morale would rise in people and make it more enjoyable.[/QUOTE] Additionally it would make those teens who got the job more conscious towards littering and what not. [editline]28th December 2014[/editline] While a minor thing in comparison to reducing crime rates, over time it could create a larger body of people who would want to see their community cleaner, as they've had to personally clean up after others.
I still believe that every state in the United States needs three things, and three things alone to deal with unemployment. 1. Every state has it's own state bank, which deals with funding properly so that states have better checks and balances of their funds. Like the Bank of North Dakota. Not only does this deal with issues relating to government corruption, but it also allows for state governments to maintain better finances, as well as giving them the ability to directly pump money into their local economies as a matter of investment. Right now, the state of North Dakota is actually out-performing Wallstreet and several other world-wide economies. That is the power of a state bank, and better investment into your own local economies. New York is slowly adopting such a system by giving loans out to start-up companies, and I give them a massive thumbs up for doing so. We cannot start repairing this country if local economies are not working as they should. In order to deal with issues on a national level, we need to start out where they begin... Lack of jobs in local economies. 2. The federal government opens up a new program similar to the Great Deals work programs. This program is aimed at employing the unemployed, as well as fresh talent that is 16+ and can be employed during the summer time. All these wokers will be used to repair and fix up communities, as well as help tear down degraded buildings in order to prevent the problems highlighted in the Broken Window Theory. This program will also open up a new system that aids workers in moving around the country to find work, and gives them aid in moving their families to their new work site. 3. Redo the entire GED program so that students can come back and start working on getting their highschool diplomas again. I know this may not sound like much, but god fucking damnit, let me tell you how much I'd love to go back and get a diploma. It's not only a massive boost to confidence for an individual, but it'd let people know that they still have avenues and options for doing things. At the same time, with the new state bank programs, it should become mandatory for 2 years of trade school to be free or paid via tax programs by your parents while you are growing up. Said program should also take over the current loan programs. Instead we should be able to pay back all of our college programs via tax return deductions/general state taxes through out the year. This not only deals with current problems in relation loan fraud, inability to pay back loans, and otherwise... But it just fucking makes sense. It'd take away a great deal of burden off the shoulders of students, and make new students feel like they are not going to be gutted for trying to better themselves. These three things... Local infrastructure, national infrastructure, and improving our educational standards, is all you need in order to deal with most of the issues America is having today. The most important one out of all of these is the issue of local economies. If we can somehow get every state to have it's own state bank, we can better manage the economies of each state, while also allowing the states to gather their own surplus from taxes, which allows them to put their own money forward to repair issues that need repairing on their local level. [editline]29th December 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46813002]Yes, and it makes you wonder what a proper national unemployment program would do to decrease the crime rate. [B]This is a giant middle finger to all the people who think government is useless and can't fix anything.[/B][/QUOTE] They are still incapable twats half the time. This is more from the fact that we don't have proper management of funding on a local level though. States need their state owned banks. Like the Bank of North Dakota.
Should post information about the JobCorps! Free education and jobs. Its a great tool for people scraping for both
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