“It’s unusually comprehensive,” said Indivar Dutta-Gupta, co-executive director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyOther parts of the Brooklyn plan would invest in healthy food, education and youth development, and climate resiliency. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyRepresentative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat who represents central Brooklyn, lauded the governor’s proposal, saying it would foster healthy lifestyles. “This plan is a dramatic and comprehensive effort to solve problems that have existed in central Brooklyn for decades,” he said in an interview. “We think it’s a meaningful initiative.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyStill, experts on poverty cautioned that such a plan must be sustained, with continued funding over time, to be successful.

Source: New York Times March 09, 2017 14:55 UTC