Black males left behind / edited by Ronald B. Mincy.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Washington, DC : Urban Institute Press, ©2006.
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xvii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Despite the overall economic gains in the 1990s, many young black men continue to have the poorest life chances of anyone in our society. 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. -- From product description.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Left behind: less-educated young black men left behind in the economic boom of the 1990s / Ronald B. Mincy, Charles E. Lewis, Jr., and Wen-Jui Han
    • Trends in the employment outcomes of young black men, 1979-2000 / Harry J. Holzer and Paul Offner
    • Forecasting the labor market prospects of less-educated Americans / William M. Rodgers III
    • How do employer perceptions of crime and incarceration affect the employment prospects of less-educated young black men? / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll
    • Are less-educated women crowding less-educated men out of the labor market? / Rebecca M. Blank and Jonah Gelbach
    • Did spatial mismatch affect male labor force participation during the 1990s expansion? / John A. Foster-Bey, Jr.
    • Low-income black men on work opportunity, work resources, and job training programs / Alford A. Young, Jr.
    • The availability and use of workforce development programs among less-educated youth / Demetra Smith Nightingale and Elaine Sorensen
    • Improving public policies to increase the income and employment of low-income nonresident fathers / Wendell Primus
    • Poor fathers and public policy: what is to be done? / Ron Haskins
    • Toward a fruitful policy discourse about less-educated young men / Hillard Pouncy.
    ISBN
    • 0877667276 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780877667278 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2005035457
    OCLC
    62525156
    International Article Number
    • 9780877667278
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