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Q&A: Inside Bloomberg’s big youth push
- 08-08-2011
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By Lisa Fleisher/Wall Street Journal (Interview)
On Thursday morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed details of a $127 million initiative designed to generate economic and educational opportunities for New York City’s black and Latino men between the ages of 16 and 24. The Young Men’s Initiative, as it will be called, draws on $30 million from the mayor’s personal fortune and $30 million from hedge-fund billionaire George Soros’s foundation, with the remaining funds coming from the city itself. The Bloomberg administration is characterizing the effort as the centerpiece of the mayor’s third term. For insight into what this broad effort entails, Metropolis spoke to Pedro Noguera, a professor at New York University who advised the mayor’s team on how to build this program. Here’s an edited transcript of the interview. What’s your general impression of the mayor’s plan? It’s very substantive and it’s comprehensive, so I want to give the mayor credit for taking such an ambitious approach in putting so many resources behind the effort. I think that the real test — the problem with the issue — is that it’s very complex and multi-faceted and multi-dimensional. (more...)
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