Josh Crawford joins Leland Conway to share his expertise about crime, communities, policies, and the needed solutions to improve high-crime areas and create opportunities for people to thrive.
Josh shares his expertise on community, crime, and the solutions needed to have thriving communities and opportunities for people break the cycle of poverty.
Young Voices commentator Joshua Crawford joins JT to explain how reining in violent crime helps those who need economic opportunity. Broadcast Tuesday, October 18th, 2022.
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In the first year of implementation, group violence intervention program leaders believe they’re seeing success.
“We’re seeing the results in the community and I think the numbers speak for themselves,” group violence intervention program manager Dondre Jefferson said.
“Convey these messages of enforcement and a helping hand and they’re sort of the cornerstone of [group violence intervention]-type programs around the country and currently we are not able to get as many people into those call-in’s as we need to,” said Josh Crawford, director of criminal justice initiatives at the Center for Opportunity.
Official government unemployment numbers remain low, but the abysmal labor participation rate is a story too often ignored. Amazingly, The Washington Post notes that the prime male work rate is below 1940 numbers, the tail end of the Great Depression when unemployment was almost 15%. Only 62% of the eligible labor force is currently in the workforce.
