[summer]

Yes, that's one part of it -- the article mentions that, too (the loss of manufacturing jobs). But, here's another part you have to consider: white and Hispanic men do not have the same problems at the same rates as black men.
Black men bear a lot of children out of wedlock, and now, with stricter child support laws, the article explains how these black men, already absent from the home where their children are being raised, see any kind of legitimate work as coming with a "tax" of child support payments. So, they avoid it. Which leads them into more problems.

[Wolfhound777]

Black men bear a lot of children out of wedlock, and now, with stricter child support laws, the article explains how these black men, already absent from the home where their children are being raised, see any kind of legitimate work as coming with a "tax" of child support payments. So, they avoid it. Which leads them into more problems.

Problems of their own making. Any person that would shun legitimate work because they will then have take personal responsibility to support the very children that they brought into this world, doensn't deserve anything.

[Wolfhound777]

Black men bear a lot of children out of wedlock, and now, with stricter child support laws, the article explains how these black men, already absent from the home where their children are being raised, see any kind of legitimate work as coming with a "tax" of child support payments. So, they avoid it. Which leads them into more problems.

Problems of their own making. Any person that would shun legitimate work because they will then have take personal responsibility to support the very children that they brought into this world, doesn't deserve anything.