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Essentially, the charge is one of “creaming” the easiest-to-serve participants off the top of a larger population – an accusation that’s not unfamiliar in the world of Bloomberg administration service provision. It’s been a frequent critique about the programs of the poverty-fighting Center for Economic Opportunity, for example. The problem in this case, say the advocates, is that the young people left behind stand little chance of finding help elsewhere.
“We have this huge need for basic skills in New York City,” says Lazar Treschan. “There’s never enough money to do it right. Here you have $14 million, and the city is just wasting the opportunity.”
Disclosure: The Community Service Society of New York, mentioned above, is the owner of City Limits.
