Chirlane McCray, wife of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, champions the ThriveNYC mental health program, but organizers cannot explain where its $850million budget has gone. This is just insane. There’s no one at the helm,” City Councilman Mark Gjonaj (D-Bronx), a member of the body’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, griped to The Post. One, from City Hall, showed $594million in spending, but a second, from the Independent Budget Office, showed $816milion. “There is no leadership, there is [no] follow-through. And arguably she did more than any other woman of her day to help the immigrant community in the United States. "I'm not sure anybody does.". New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, was given $900 million to start a mental health initiative focusing on helping the homeless in the city. Please try again.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife started the effort two years ago — yet has chosen only one artist for a single monument so far…. Now check your email to confirm your subscription. Facebook is heavily censoring information from independent sources. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, was given $900 million to start a mental health initiative focusing on helping the homeless in the city. The position will not be paid, thus McCray will not be dipping into New York’s biggie bank for compensation. But this is 2019, and the general feeling — at least in the de Blasio administration — is that if there’s not a lot of dough attached to the spousal sinecure, it doesn’t really matter enough. Learn more about accessiblity from the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities. Speaking to the Post, Queens Councilman Robert Holden told the New York Post: "I like the fact that money is going toward mental health, but when they say we're seeing a benefit in all areas, I take exception to that, because I don't see it everywhere.
But also mayoral spouse Chirlane McCray, who has just been revealed as a world-class boondoggler in her own right. How is this allowable? FaithImmigrationPoliticsBill de BlasioChirlane McCrayfaithFrances Xavier CabriniNew York City. That is, nobody appears to have kept receipts; the subways and street corners are still overrun with crazy people, and nobody in charge knows what’s to happen next. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, was given $900 million to start a mental health initiative focusing on helping the homeless in the city. Get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox for free every day by signing up below. This is all too reminiscent of when Hillary Clinton somehow wound up involved in developing a new national healthcare scheme when she was the First Lady.
According to the Daily Mail, Thrive said it has developed a list of 417 metrics to measure how effective the program is moving forward, but asked to assess its impact so far, Politico said the data was piecemeal and showed a largely failing picture. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images) Chirlane McCray can't explain where the $850m in funding has gone after it was given to the organization she runs, ThriveNYC. McCray is in charge of a committee known as the Racial Justice Taskforce that will review statues of “problematic” historical figures associated with slavery such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to determine their fate. And if we don’t like the “job” they are doing, there is no mechanism for the voters to remove a First Spouse from “office.”, “Since 2015: 48 Black Women Killed by the Police. © City of New York.
Hey, the family that preys together stays together, right? Things happen. “Putting @NYCFirstLady in charge of the newly created task force on racial inclusion and equity is a great idea,” -said No One Ever… By the way, what ever happened to all that money for ThriveNYC? Without records, the scheme is unable to pinpoint where the missing funding has been allocated, if at all. https://twitter.com/davej08/status/1101441406667771904, https://twitter.com/WNYGeek81/status/1101500859299627008, harshly assessed the program's effectiveness. But that really doesn’t address the issue, does it? It was honorable “work,” it didn’t cost very much and it filled up the spouse’s free time. Trash has piled high on the streets, which has led to a massive rodent problem.
For example, 29 hospitals had agreed to screen almost 78,000 new mothers for post-natal depression each year as part of the scheme.
Four years later, no one seems to know what that money was actually used for, according to the New York Post. This was another project that was going to soak up some taxpayer money, but polling indicated that a majority of people thought it was a nice idea, so off she went. And while it sounds good to spend heavily on a mental health initiative, it appears that nobody has noticed any real benefits from that investment. Chirlane McCray, wife of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, champions the ThriveNYC mental health program, but organizers cannot explain where its … And in 2015, with her signature, New York City became the first city in the country to join the United Nations Women’s Safe Cities Global Initiative.