THE LAWYER: BROOKE RICHIE

摘要

The aspiring urban do-gooder can rely on two foundatlonal assumptions. First, if no one Intervenes with a poor child early in life, she's likely to fall Into a muttigenerational cycle of poverty. Second, society doesn't devote enough resources toward helping her break that cycle. When Brooke Richie went to work for the Children's Defense Fund in New York, she realized the second axiom wasn't true. "There is a rich social-service infrastructure-really amazing health clinics and hospitals, really interesting and Innovative charter schools," she says. The problem was that the young people didn't know how to access those resources. No one explained to teen mothers how they could get subsidies for child care. Applications to get a state ID-crucial for teens wanting to find work-were hard to find and even harder to fill out.