What percentage of the unemployed black youths had the benefit of a caring, mentoring, money-earning father living in the home with them? The illegitimacy rate among blacks is 72% overall, and upwards of 90% in the ghettos. With no male role model, it is difficult (not impossible, but difficult) for black youths to receive the discipline necessary to obtain the educational and emotional skill sets needed to achieve success.
Immigrants who come here from Asian countries are able to overcome a difficult new language and have achieved success similar to that achieved by hardworking Jews and other European immigrants in the past, due to strong family values and an understanding that hard work, particularly in school, is fundamental to success. Fighting the War on Poverty while ignoring the root cause is like fighting liver cancer by amputating an infected toe.
The only solution is to remove all the government programs which make it viable for a woman to have a kid without being married to a stable, employed husband. But that would be both racist AND sexist, and the feminists would crucify anybody who proposed it.