Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job | Father Greg Boyle
This is a Vintage episode from 2007.
Why This Episode Matters
Father Greg Boyle explains how Homeboy Industries uses jobs, training and support to help former gang members build different lives.
Rival gang members work side by side — and Boyle describes what happens when people who once saw each other as enemies begin to know one another.
The conversation gets at something restaurants can do particularly well: teach skills, create pride in work and offer a path that doesn’t require a traditional academic route.
Boyle makes the case for employment as intervention in one unforgettable line…
The skinny
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