Description
Book SynopsisDespite 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 dep
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. The Abyss in America’s Inner Cities, 2. Current Federal Rehabilitative Workforce Development and Prisoner Reentry Policies and Programs: An Overview, 3. Near-Term Strategies, Programs, and Policies: Nonprofi t Approaches to Rehabilitate the Disconnected and the Formerly Incarcerated, 4. Intermediate-Term Preventive Strategies, Programs, and Policies to Facilitate Skills Training in High Schools and Alternative Venues, 5. Conclusion: The Need to Rethink Three Policies, Index
