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S1E9: Riley Roger's Administration vs. Duane Muhammad's Budget

This episode features a signature program of Mayor Riley Rogers to create summer employment for youth in the community. Dubbed the "50-20 program", it hired 50 teenagers for paid internships throughout the village administration. Despite the program's success, the trustees cut future funding for the program, so the mayor's diligent chief of staff (Elizabeth Scott) put together a partnership with OAI (https://oaiinc.org) as part of a broader effort to encourage gainful employment in the community. A few months later, a group of Dolton trustees (Duane Muhammad, Valeria Stubbs, Deborah Denton, and Robert Pierson) push through an amended budget which cuts the mayor's staff - a move that was widely perceived as political retribution against the mayor's supporters (Ashahed Triche, Edward Steave, Elizabeth Scott, and Matt Stacey). There is a dichotomy between politicians who seek to dismantle bureaucracy, either out of budgetary or political motivations, and those rare political leaders who manage to employ an administration which genuinely cares about the citizens they serve. The goal of this episode is not to say that government bureaucracy is good or bad - it simply shows the stories of actual people who are affected by government downsizing, and the positive effects they have on their community. This contrast will be expanding in future episodes on Dolton's 2018 budget crisis and the political schemes of Duane Muhammad. This is the ninth episode of a documentary series on local politics in Dolton, Illinois. The overall objective is not to target specific individuals or push a political agenda. Instead, it seeks to illustrate how democracy can falter when civil discourse and transparency are lost. The situation in Dolton mirrors broader political dysfunction seen in local, state, and federal governments across America.