Chad Butt & Benji Thurber: Mentoring as a pathway out of poverty

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chad Butt and Benji Thurber, executive director and communications director respectively, who work for Mobius, a nonprofit that supports youth mentoring programs throughout the state of Vermont. They are both residents of Burlington.
As Paul Heintz highlighted in his recent Seven Days article “State of Need,” Vermont’s efforts to address poverty over the past decade have been largely unsuccessful. Not only has the state not reached its