{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/chicago-gave-hundreds-of-high-risk-kids-a-summer-job-violent-crime-arrests-plummeted", "Chicago gave hundreds of high-risk kids a summer job. Violent crime arrests plummeted.", "2014-12-27", "2014", "2014-12", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Chicago gave hundreds of high-risk kids a summer job. Violent crime arrests plummeted.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t By:\u00a0 Emily Badger \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tSaturday, December 27, 2014\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tIn a year full of distressing stories \u2014 especially about race, crime and violence in urban neighborhoods \u2014 this one points to some hope. Earlier this December, we covered a summer jobs program in Chicago that appeared to lead to fewer teenage arrests for violent crime. Our\u00a0original story, republished below, also reminds us that policy solutions are possible \u2014 and possibly even inexpensive.\r\nA couple of years ago, the city of Chicago started\u00a0a summer jobs programfor teenagers attending high schools in some of the city's high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. The program was meant, of course, to connect students to work. But officials also hoped that it might curb the kinds of problems \u2014 like higher crime \u2014 that arise when there's no work to be found.\r\nResearch on the program\u00a0conducted by the University of Chicago Crime Lab\u00a0and just published in the journal\u00a0Science\u00a0suggests that these summer jobs have actually had such an effect: Students who were randomly assigned to participate in the program had 43 percent fewer violent-crime arrests over 16 months, compared to students in a control group.\r\nThat number is striking for a couple of reasons: It implies that a relatively short (and inexpensive) intervention like an eight-week summer jobs program can have a lasting effect on teenage behavior. And it lends empirical support to a popular refrain by advocates: \"Nothing stops a bullet like a job.\"\r\nContinue reading here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/chicago-gave-hundreds-of-high-risk-kids-a-summer-job-violent-crime-arrests-plummeted"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8403059802949429, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}