Bloomberg Announces New Program To Help Lift Minorities Out Of Poverty

August 4, 2011 11:17 AM

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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Two well-known billionaires are helping to launch a new program designed to lift black and Latino men out of poverty.

LISTEN: WCBS 880′s Mike Xirinachs reports

The Young Men’s Initiative is a bold new program that overhauls how government interacts with young black and Latino men by, among other things, establishing job recruitment centers and fatherhood classes in public housing.

“This can be a game-changer,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “We can take ourselves to a new level and maybe the impact of what we do will be copied in other cities.”

Bloomberg and billionaire George Soros are each contributing $30 million of their own money to the $127 million initiative, a program Soros says he’s proud to be part of.

“This will help make our city stronger and a better place,” said Soros.

The city will also allocate up to $67.5 million.

For more about the program, visit http://www.nyc.gov.

What do you think of The Young Men’s Initiative? Sound off below in our comments section…

Bloomberg Announces New Program To Help Lift Minorities Out Of Poverty

Concern

How many people donate their tax cuts?
Very conservative

Liberalism is a mental disorder.
TheDemsRKillingNY

Maybe he should stop protecting illegal, aliens. That may open up some opportunties…

Carrie

SO right you are.

Suddenly there’s $67 million dollars of my tax dollars available for this?

Outrageous!
saltine

And besides, hasn’t this been tried over and over AGAIN?! And still, the black women are proud to call 5 men their “baby daddies”. And still, the black women allow and encourage their men to be irresponsible.

Apparently, it’s only discrimination if you’re black or hispanic. Everyone already KNOWs that only WHITE people are RACIST!!!!!
WAKE UP WHITE MAN

Keep in mind that in a time when Whites are a minority, they will
never be given monies, welfare, free education ect. on this basis.

johndenugent.com
wvwnews.net (western voices world news)
ramzpaul.com
KPMc

When is the last time you saw a bunch of american born black guys at a morning shape up competing with those illegal aliens for jobs? Answer: NEVER… because they don’t WANT to do those jobs.

Same as on the other end of the spectrum. Know why the FDNY is so devoid of black/hispanic people? Because they are not applying for the job not because of some BS claim of discrimination. They are calling for the next hirings to be 60% minority? If they aren’t applying for the job how in the world do you expect to fulfill 60%.

This world is full of morons!

TomNJ

Didn’t affirmative action and other programs and laws passed in the last 40 years do any good? Seems there are enough programs in place to help minorities. When will the white guilt stop? The entire generation of black and latino people under 40 had the same opportunities and chances as white people do. There are black judges, doctors, and even a black president. I think the barriers are basically gone and the only thing in the minorities way today is themselves.

Mike

Amen!!
sk

i agree. we have given minorities plenty of oppurtunities to rise above poverty level. There are so many blacks in power that there are no excusesd anymore! I understand being sympathetic in the 50s and 60s when they really did face more discrimination/segregagtion but not now in 2011. Today many blacks are living below poverty level b/c of poor life choices they make, not b/c they are forced to! But certain groups know that they can always blame their problems on everyone else who has to pay for them!

richard Allen

Come on Mayor we all know the FIRST thing we need to do is teach black people how to speak ENGLISH…

No more Ghetto Ebonics…..then they might understand ENGLISH enough to get what being a good father and getting a JOB really means.

ENGLISH FIRST…

midi-man

And get them to pull up there paints this is not jial.

Victor M.

“Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.” – Seneca
Victor M.

Maybe they will learn to live life better, on prayer it is amazing grace like this that will keep things up to speed. How sweet tis may make it charitable, or tangible . or palpable.
MULTICULTURISM SUX

johndenugent.com
stormfront.org
wvwnews.net (western voices world news) great site!
ramzpaul.com
against stupidity!

we built this country for your lazy a- – white ancestors who wanted free labor dummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run

Whatever was built, was either looted, burnt down, made into a ghetto, by your own hands. Prove me wrong!

If things are not that great here, you can always freely move back to Liberia, NOBODY IS STOPPING YOU, where people are burnt daily with a large tire around their body.
nancy

u have to know who is the stupid……this is not an excuse to be lazy or being a dump because of the history. if these ppl are smart enough they can stand up by themselves. if our country owe anything to these animals., i think we already paid them off.

HARLEM GOING H.A.M.

BLACKS AND LATINOS HAVE SUFFERED SO MUCH DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORK FORCE. THAT GLASS CEILING PREVENTS US FROM MOVING ON UP.

TomNJ

Tell that to Obama. He made it to the top.
Mike

Glass ceiling? Minorities have more opportunities than whites now! Stop complaining, and feeling sorry for yourselves, and GET IT DONE!

Linda

This goverment just had elderly people in a panic saying money was gone, social security and programs could not be paid for so we urgently had to raise the debt ceiling. Well lo-n-behold, debt ceiling gets raised and the first thing these “politicans” start doing is throwing our money away again. How about balancing our budget first. Hope these guys are due to be voted out soon.
Linda

Hey there “fearless Leaders” how about getting our state of New York out of debt before you go wasting our tax-dollars again. What the HE## is wrong with you guys, STOP WASTING OUR MONEY. How hard is that for you to understand. I’ll give you all a starting point: SEND THE ILLEGALS BACK HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
M L K

Why only Black and Latinos and not other minorities? We hold these truth…that all men are created equal
Concern

Charity Search Engines
Concern

Robin Hood Foundation
Tricia

The city will also allocate up to $67.5 million
Public housing, food stamps, medicaid, and free college.
Enough already!!!!
LET BLOOMY AND SOROSFUND THE WHOLE THING THEMSELVES
STOP THE MADNESS< THE TAXPAYERS CAN"T BLEED ANYMORE CASH so the billionaires could feel good about themselves. SHAME ON THESE HOLYier THEN THOU LEFTYs The working class taxpayers of this city see right through YOU
Cameron

WHY IS THE CITY USING (ALLOCATING…!!?) MY TAX DOLLARS FOR SUCH AN REDICULOUS PROGRAM?

I AM TOTALLY AGAINST IT AND IT SEEMD BLOOMBERG IS TRYING TO LOOK GOOD IN HISOWN EYES ONCE AGAIN.

A SAD DAY WHEN YOU HAVE TO PAY PEOPLE TO BE GOOD FATHERS- SO WHEN YOU STOP PAYING THEM GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.

BE RESPONSIBLE- STOP HAVING CHILDREN WITH EVERY WOMAN ON THE BLOCK AND TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE KIDS THAT ARE ALREADY HERE WITH YOUR NAME….NO FREE RIDES…FOOD STAMPS ETC.

AGAINST RASCISM!

so much rascism it’s laughable and sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Think about what your great parents did to your MIND!!!! : )

Dr Pill

It is not my concern what was done generations ago; I should not be paying for it today. Get on with your life and don’t be fruitful and the expense of another party. Be responsible for your own actions. Wild animals that have no control are caged away. So should people with low expectations on living in a civilized society.

Foghornleghorn

How many of these peple are illegal? How about an incentive based on income, rather than race?

Talk about pandering for votes…..

AGAINST RASCISM!

WHAT A IGNOROMOUS A – - YOU ARE!!!!!!

Mr. Bean

Speaking the truth, soes not make me a racist.

Illegal happens to mean ILLEGA_L as in against the law as in unlawful.

If this is the case, why do I have to support you?

Get your life in order, become a citizen, stop having all this babies and have the decency to give these children a name – get married.
Becoame part of American society.

Why is the program based on race? Isn’t THAT racist?

Lieutenantdan

Reverse Discrimination!
Why not spend millions on a program that would help all races of men.
Mary, women already have enough free social programs.
joey from b’hurst

They all ready have all the incentives in the world to succeed. Some races are just destined to fail.

I can’t wait to see the newly revised FDNY firefighter test specially designed by minorities, for minorities. The results will still be the same, and Judge Garafulis will look like a clown in a robe.

CHRISTINE

Joey from B’hurst

..and some people are just destined to stay ignorant and racist… : )

From a black woman who did not come from poverty, who has succeeded in life and who is probably more well off than you….would not put another human being down because of their race or otherwise! A person who does that (you) more than likely, have nothing in life and nothing to offer anybody else but negative words to try and validate your sorry life…….crawl back into the GUTTER A-hole!!!!!

joey from b’hurst

@Christine: My father was a British seaman with the the Royal Merchant Marine. He was a British citizen of Sicilian extract. He met my mother , in St Kitts, WI, she was of Afro-Irish heritage. Atypical women from this area. I should have let you know this earlier. I have well defined black features; but can be observed to West Indian.

But I believe the inner city NYCHA dwellers have no future. When I meant race, I was referring to this group. I should have explained further.

I have succeeded in life very well. I am an owner of a large rental property, as well as my own house.

My regards to your success.

Joey

BronxByBirth

You would have thought by now that someone would have learned you can’t through money at a problem and expect it to be solved.
KPMc — good quote and quite apropos.
Mary

What about the Young WOMEN????
KPMc

What a friggin’ joke!

Fatherhood LESSONS? Really?

First lesson.. stop impregnating women when you can’t take care of yourself and are unwilling and too selfish to take care of another human being.

Lesson 2… When you impregnate someone she is not you baby momma. You are the father of another human being with several responsibilities. Own up to them.

Lesson 3.. Your mother, grandmother, aunt nor those of the woman you impregnated made this child. Stop pawning them off on grandmas that have already raised their children.

In summary, hopefully in language you can understand… Chuck D said it best…

“You ask me where I got it? I got it from my Pops… With a MAN in the house all the bullsh!t stops!”

chris

KPMc

Lesson 4….stop having children and damaging their minds by instilling them with racial trash…… : )

KPMc

Chris:

So Mayor Mike and another billionaire put aside millions, along with tax payer state and city money, to teach black and hispanic men how to be fathers and find jobs and “I’M” the racist?

No… I am a realist. Why the hell do you think they even thought of this program if my comments weren’t right on.

Keep ignoring and denying the problem. That will fix it… along with 127 million dollars. Friggin’ ridiculous.

KPMc

How about I leave my comment one word at a time so we can figure which harmless word CBS finds so offensive?

KPMc

Fatherhood

KPMc

OMG… CBS filters out cla sses? because of the word within it that is not even a curse?

Let’s try again using a non-offensice synonym.

Michael H.

they filter out the dumbest stuff. you can’t say h o m o s e x u a l, but “gay” is just fine

KPMc

Are comments turned off are you just filtering out innocuous words?

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