Bill de Blasio’s Wife Basically Lost Track Of $850 Million Bucks

By all means, take more taxpayer money!

According to this, Bill de Blasio’s wife lost track of $850 million bucks, which was supposed to go toward her big mental health project, ThriveNYC.

In the three years it has been running, organizers at ThriveNYC have largely failed to keep records of the initiative’s achievements – and data that has been collected shows it lagging well behind targets.

Despite that, the program has been granted an even bigger budget going forward and is now on track to spend $1 billion over five years.

That is insane. Why would they give more money to a program that couldn’t even keep track of its funds?!?! How do they even know if it’s working?!?

The data comes from a Politico report that shows those running the scheme have largely failed to measure its impact or keep track of spending.

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.

For example, 29 hospitals had agreed to screen almost 78,000 new mothers for post-natal depression each year as part of the scheme.

But over the course of two years between 2016 and 2018 the hospital screened a little over 28,000 patients and just 570 were offered help, a fraction of the 12,000 to 15,000 who were estimated to need care.

Completely idiotic.

They tried to get actual data on the budget, but the numbers from the two estimates were SO OFF.

One, from from City Hall, showed $594million in spending, but a second, from the Independent Budget Office, showed $816milion.

So which is it? How is it possible to be THAT off?

But sure guys. Keep throwing taxpayer money at a program even though you literally have NO IDEA if it’s even working. Give dem those dollas.

h/t Daily Mail