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Cycles of Poverty and Crime in America's Inner Cities (Paperback)
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Despite the best hopes of the past half century, black urban
pathologies persist in America. The inner cities remain
concentrations of the uneducated, unemployed, underemployed, and
unemployable. Many fail to stay in school and others choose lives
of drugs, violence, and crime. Most do not marry, leading to
single-parent households and children without a father figure. The
cycle repeats itself generation after generation. It is easy to
argue that nothing works, given the policy failures of the past.
For Lewis D. Solomon, fatalism is not acceptable. A complex and
interrelated web of issues plague inner-city black males:
joblessness; the failure of public education; crime, mass
incarceration, and drugs; the collapse of married, two-parent
families; and negative cultural messages. Rather than abandon the
black urban underclass, Solomon presents strategies and programs to
rebuild lives and revitalize America's inner cities. These
approaches are neither government oriented nor dependent on federal
intervention, and they are not futuristic. Focusing on
rehabilitative efforts, Solomon describes workforce development,
prisoner reentry, and the role of nonprofit organizations.
Solomon's strategies focus on the need to improve the quality of
America's workforce through building human capital at the
socioeconomic bottom. The goal is to enable more people to fend for
themselves, thereby weaning them from dependency on public sector
handouts. Solomon shows a path forward for inner-city black males.
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