Bloomberg’s anti-poverty initiative shows mixed results
Sally Goldenberg
A host of anti-poverty measures implemented under former mayor Michael Bloomberg, including his signature program known as the Young Men's Initiative, has achieved mixed results in recent years, according to data prepared by the city and obtained by Capital.
Y.M.I., which Mayor Bill de Blasio has touted in his own campaign to close New York City's income gap, increased job placement and internship attendance for at-risk males who left school without a job, the data show. The 15-page progress report on Bloomberg's poverty-busting initiatives shows 1,831 people enrolled in the Y.M.I.'s "Young Adult Internship Program" in Fiscal Year 2013, up from 1,740 the previous year.
That initiative is run in conjunction with the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development.
Of those who enrolled the program in FY2013, 1,793 males were placed in internships and 1,536 completed them. The year before, 1,725 males were placed in internships and 1,444 completed them.
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