To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Jobs for Inner City Youth
Illinois needs funding to combat youth violence with job training and productive work where youth and young adults improve the social environment in neighborhoods through educational, social and cultural programs.
Why is this important?
In 2012, there were 506 people killed in Chicago. More people than the number of Allied Forces killed in the war in Afghanistan. January in Chicago was the bloodiest month in 10 years. In one week alone, a mother lost her fourth and final child to gun violence, and a 15 year old girl, who a week prior had performed for the President’s, Inauguration, was gunned down in the rain, on her way home from school. Most of these victims, like this young girl have been innocent bystanders, caught in the crossfire. Unemployment among youth in Chicago, is greater than 70%. Too often, these young people are left standing on the mean streets of our city.is greater than 70%. Employed youth are less likely to be victims or perpetrators of gang and gun violence.