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Youth Jobs in Focus at JP Community Forum
At the third annual State of Our Neighborhood forum, members of the community spoke to elected officials about a variety of topics.
In a nearly filled Kennedy Elementary School auditorium, members of the community and elected officials came together to discuss issues that come with living in a city with specific focus on Jamaica Plain. Four elected officials addressed the local economy and jobs for teenagers at the third annual State of Our Neighborhood forum Tuesday night. Carol Rogers, a teenage volunteer at Teen Empowerment, Inc., a Roxbury-based organization that helps young people develop job skills, told a story about how she saw a cousin gunned down when she was in third grade. She said the experience could have touched off a life of tragedy and struggle, but she was determined to find a way out. She said she focused her efforts on the day-to-day life at school…
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Bret Silverberg
9:22 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A lot was discussed, but this was the most impassioned moment of the panel, or so I thought. Other topics on the table were affordable housing, urban agriculture and transportation. more ›