Posted on 05/13/2015 7:17:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Tuesday that he has met with gang leaders in his hometown of Chicago and theyve told him that its a lack of jobs that keeps them on the streets.
We have to have jobs for young people, Duncan said at the National Summit on Youth Violence Prevention in Crystal City, Va. I probably shouldnt say this in a room like this, but occasionally when I go home Ill sit down with some of the gang leadersback home in Chicago.
He said he asked them what was the biggest impediment to getting gangs to stop their illicit activities.
Its jobs, Duncan told the federal government-sponsored event. So we need to think about what we do at scale to create those kind of opportunities for young people who just have to make some money, want to do it in a positive way, but in too many places they dont exist.
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Like robbing bigger banks.
I can think of good jobs for them. When any of them are convicted of capital murder, the leader of a competing gang will act as his hangman, performing the actual, legal execution.
Obviously, more money needs to be poured into Chicago to keep gangs from making “easy” money through crime. Thug life has more of an appeal than bejng on a time clock.
I thought the unemployment rate was 5.4 %
All of which adds up to fewer and fewer jobs.
As his boss pushes the TPP monster.
You left out raising the minimum wage.
Selling drugs pays them better than any Mcjob they could land.
I can't think of much else they'd could do.
“Deep down inside them there is good!”
Deeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar Officer Krupsky...” :)
Maybe they need fathers. And caring mothers. And faith. And merit based public school teachers. Perhaps school vouchers. And an appreciation for the rule of law. Perhaps a working understanding of free market capitalism. The Constitution. Our nations history and heritage.
Then they could earn a job that matched their skills.
No problem. The new trade deals will create millions of new jobs.
They need jobs but don’t want to work.
Also, most of them cannot pass a drug test.
Lack of jobs is the reason for gangs?
Wait.. Isn’t the MSM telling us that the Obama economy is soaring and unemployment is down and we are all going to get ponies for Christmas?
He'll have more millions of illegals with shiny new work permits waiting for them long before they're ever created.
I thought the unemployment rate was 5.4 %
Good point. If they don’t have a job, it’s their fault.
Send them to to some 3rd world hellhole for 2 weeks. How about a refugee camp on the edge of where ISIS is killing people?
Then when they are back here; ask them if they still think they have a bad situation here.
Actually that would be good for many Americans.
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