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Mayor Bill de Blasio likes to say that there’s plenty of money in New York City, but that it’s in the wrong hands. Chirlane McCray’s, perhaps? The first spouse went before the City...
Mar 28, 2019 · Council members learned Tuesday that only $30 million of Thrive’s $250 million annual budget — an anemic 12 percent — is spent on the seriously mentally ill, with the remainder of that enormously expensive burden shunted off to the city’s more traditional social services agencies.
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Jan 14, 2019 · The money that’s in the wrong hands is the $850 million dollars in ThriveNYC mental health funds that he placed in the hands of his wife, Chirlane McCray. As McCray explained during her own...
- D.J. Jaffe
Apr 23, 2018 · Two-thirds of the sum comes from city dollars. A combination of federal grants and private donations fund the $24 million Connections to Care program, also under Thrive, and Medicaid reimbursements back the shelter-based treatment for people who are homeless.
Jul 5, 2023 · On Wednesday morning, Americans logged onto their computers, still groggy from too much Fourth of July reverie, and were hit with a bombshell: a New York Times piece titled “ Bill de Blasio and...
Mar 28, 2019 · When McCray launched Thrive in 2015, the mayor’s office estimated the program would require $850 million over four years. Thrive’s breakdown accounts for only $743.2 million, including the $250 million in this year’s budget request.
As of March 2019, nearly $850 million in funding for McCray's mental health program was unaccounted for; furthermore, the program was on track to spend $1 billion over five years. Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres criticized ThriveNYC, stating that there was "no evidence it’s working".
