The City of Boston Increases Efforts Towards Paid Youth Summer Jobs

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Teen violence is historically peaked in the summer, when kids
are out of school and restless. The City of Boston
is trying to give those kids another avenue.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Really, violence is a perpetuation of people who are numb
because of trauma. So we try to be.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
At Apigrale Foresters as CEO of the Center for.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Teen Empowerment in Roxbury, which hires teens to work as
artists and organizers over the summer, the city has poured
effort into its Future Boss program, which helps place teenagers
in summer jobs. The mayor says it's working as rates
of violence are falling.

Speaker 5 (00:27):
And it's no coincidence that these last three years of
the lowest levels of gun violence in Boston's history have
been the same three years of the highest levels of
paid u summer jobs.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
The kids will work here, say the solution.

Speaker 6 (00:38):
It's pretty simple. Jobs like this keep them busy doing
something they like and out of trouble.

Speaker 7 (00:42):
There was more stuff like this, violence in Boston would
definitely decreased by giving teens something to do.

Speaker 6 (00:47):
Kyle Schaffeld THEBMUS, Boston's news radio