Black Males Left Behind
Despite
the overall economic gains in the 1990s, many young black men
continue to have the poorest life chances of anyone in our society.
Joblessness and low earnings among these less-educated young adults
are contributing to reductions in marriage, increases in nonmarital
childbearing, and a host of other social problems. In Black Males
Left Behind, Ronald Mincy has assembled a distinguished group of
experts who examine how less-educated black men fared relative to
other less-educated young people during the economic expansion of
the 1990s and why. Chapters explore the roles of the macroeconomy,
the deconcentration of blue-collar employment, criminal justice
policy, and the employment aspirations of young less-educated black
men and consider their implications for the design of employment
services, welfare-to-work policies, workforce development policy,
and child support enforcement. Two chapters comprehensively review
policy opportunities to assist less-educated young black fathers and
discuss how to overcome political resistance to initiatives serving
less-educated black men. This book makes a compelling case for
greater public attention to a serious domestic problem.