Chapter 1. Left Behind: Less-Educated Young Black Men in the Economic Boom of the 1990s
Ronald B. Mincy, Charles E. Lewis Jr., and Wen-Jui Han
Chapter 2. Trends in the Employment Outcomes of Young Black Men, 1979-2000
Harry J. Holzer and Paul Offner
Chapter 3. Forecasting the Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Americans
William M. Rodgers III
Chapter 4. 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
Chapter 5. Are Less-Educated Women Crowding Less-Educated Men Out of the Labor Market?
Rebecca M. Blank and Jonah Gelbach
Chapter 6. Did Spatial Mismatch Affect Male Labor Force Participation during the 1990s Expansion?
John A. Foster-Bey Jr.
Chapter 7. Low-Income Black Men on Work Opportunity, Work Resources, and Job Training Programs
Alford A. Young Jr.
Chapter 8. The Availability and Use of Workforce Development Programs among Less-Educated Youth
Demetra Smith Nightingale and Elaine Sorensen
Chapter 9. Improving Public Policies to Increase the Income and Employment of Low-Income Nonresident Fathers
Wendell Primus
Chapter 10. Poor Fathers and Public Policy: What Is to Be Done?
Ron Haskins
Chapter 11. Toward a Fruitful Policy Discourse about Less-Educated Young Men
Hillard Pouncy
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Index
Black Males Left Behind, edited by Ronald B. Mincy, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 344 pages, ISBN 0-87766-727-6, $29.50).
