Billionaires Invest in Young Black and Latino Men

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

There's not much in the media today that bears anything close to something positive or something that leaves you with some hope for the future.  Unfortunately, the idiotic antics of our law makers takes center stage to other news so we don't hear much about someone actually trying to do something positive. But I read a story in The Grio that lifted my spirits:

New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the billionaire financier George Soros have teamed up to aid African-American and Latino youth.

The Young Men's Initiative, as it is called, will overhaul how the city government interacts with the 315,000 African-American and Latino males between the ages of 16 and 24. The aim is to be pro-active: by addressing the much discussed, but rarely confronted, issues affecting this undereducated, over-incarcerated and underemployed minority.