“It’s About Scarcity, Stupid”: Youth Development Needs Bigger Public Investment [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 10/30/144:00 AM

We all bring our own unique perspectives to the work we do. I grew up in a community where we took for granted that there was a role for a public sector in universal health care, quality education, public transit, social planning.

There is one simple truth for me, having lived and worked in communities that have struggled with deindustrialization, the loss of jobs and the loss of a tax base and having worked with juvenile departments that closed programs, shut down services and closed facilities because of the budgetary pressures.

Misery, quite simply, doesn’t love company.

[For more of this story, written by Jason Ziedenberg, go to http://jjie.org/its-about-scar...c-investment/107835/]

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