$80 million on "programs"? What is in these programs that is so expensive and why do they fail to achieve anything?
As a kid I was the benefit of zero programs and support; I was just expected to go to class, work a bit on the side, and not get into trouble. I could have greatly benefited by community help in better understanding finances and investing, planning a career, and some mental health insight. Even if I got only a few hours of each I think it would have greatly helped my life, but there was nothing. I only met with my high school guidance counselor once (a pointless meeting), yet made it to college. Refugee classmates with much less than I had somehow also went on to make something of themselves.
As with the homeless industrial complex, we just continue to waste money on programming that somehow only seems to make things worse. It would probably be better to take those millions, invest $10,000 for each kid, so that in the future--when they finish college or get out of prison--they at least have a nest egg to rely on.
$80 million on "programs"? What is in these programs that is so expensive and why do they fail to achieve anything?
As a kid I was the benefit of zero programs and support; I was just expected to go to class, work a bit on the side, and not get into trouble. I could have greatly benefited by community help in better understanding finances and investing, planning a career, and some mental health insight. Even if I got only a few hours of each I think it would have greatly helped my life, but there was nothing. I only met with my high school guidance counselor once (a pointless meeting), yet made it to college. Refugee classmates with much less than I had somehow also went on to make something of themselves.
As with the homeless industrial complex, we just continue to waste money on programming that somehow only seems to make things worse. It would probably be better to take those millions, invest $10,000 for each kid, so that in the future--when they finish college or get out of prison--they at least have a nest egg to rely on.