Ten O'Clock News

At. The Roxbury Boys and Girls Club was a place where neighborhood youngsters go to participate in a wide range of activities. They go there to play to learn and then in the summer. They go there to find work. The club director Lawrence Jones was the guy teenagers often turn to for help in finding job placements. But this year Jones has only been able to place about a dozen young people even though many times that number are seeking employment. And this community there are several thousand kids you know and if you're only coming up with you know a couple hundred jobs and you've got a couple of thousand kids you know you don't get that balances stuff so a lot of kids are not working. Part of the problem this summer is that the private sector has not come through with as many jobs as in the boom years of the 80s. Federal funds have been cut and state funds are limited. The city of Boston has actually increased summer jobs funding by 4 million dollars this year. But that's not enough to offset the gap this summer between supply and demand.

You know we get to that pain of an attitude. The reason why we have a lot of the gang activity in this community. We have kids who are borderline a lot of kids out there trying to make money any kind of way they can whether it be selling drugs or robbing people adore whatever they have no one. A lot of these kids a supplementing their family incomes. You know when a kid has to go out and do other kinds of things to supplement his family income that's a sad state of affairs because providing jobs for young people is trivial to some but the consequences of not taking this issue seriously will haunt us for years to come. And if you don't give them an opportunity to develop in a healthy sense and establish some sort of a healthy work ethic then it's not going to happen it's not going to happen later on you're not going to keep a kid out of a job market you know from the age of 13 to 20. And then expect him to be able to jump into the job market and know what he's doing know how to act on the job. You know know how to care and self know what to do when he gets his money. You know KNOW HOW TO ME. You know I have a bank account or spend his

money appropriately. These kinds of things you know manifests itself into a whole cycle. Yeah I was crying for the 10 o'clock news. I'm Marcus Jones. For. All the grand. Dragon You know what. I'd. Like. To. Do it. What is ego.

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