{"id":615,"date":"2020-06-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=615"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:37:00","slug":"pledging-an-end-to-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/06\/09\/pledging-an-end-to-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pledging an End to Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every June, while we celebrate the end of the school year and start of summer, we face the grim reality of increased gun violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the proposed elimination of the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) due to the city&#8217;s budget shortfall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we are in uncharted territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to invest not divest from communities hardest hit by the pandemic like<strong>\u00a0District 45<\/strong>. Our youth and families are in need of greater access to resources that will help advance personal, community, and economic development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As our city has reopened, we must work to restore thousands of youth jobs while expanding the capacity of our Crisis Management System partners and community-based organizations that operate programming to keep our community safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every June, while we celebrate the end of the school year and start of summer, we face the grim reality of increased gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>With the proposed elimination of the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) due to the city&#8217;s budget shortfall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we are in uncharted territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We need to invest not divest from communities hardest hit by the pandemic like<strong>\u00a0District 45<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/06\/09\/pledging-an-end-to-gun-violence\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}