This is one of the major factors. A/A's have unprecedented access to federal, state, and local programs to help lift them out of poverty but many find it easier to protect their welfare benefits - which are immediately reduced if they marry the father(s) of their children or work at a lower income job since many don't have the education or technical skills for higher paying jobs. This dependency on gov't money has caused a disintegration of A/A families. As W/S likes to say: REALITY.
"HOW THE WELFARE STATE HAS DEVASTATED AFRICAN AMERICANS"
"The rise of the welfare state in the 1960s contributed greatly to the demise of the black family as a stable institution. The out-of-wedlock birth rate among African Americans today is 73%, three times higher than it was prior to the War on Poverty. Children raised in fatherless homes are far more likely to grow up poor and to eventually engage in criminal behavior, than their peers who are raised in two-parent homes. In 2010, blacks (approximately 13% of the U.S. population) accounted for 48.7% (now over 50%) of all arrests for homicide, 31.8% of arrests for forcible rape, 33.5% of arrests for aggravated assault, and 55% of arrests for robbery. Also as of 2010, the black poverty rate was 27.4% (about 3 times higher than the white rate), meaning that 11.5 million blacks in the U.S. were living in poverty."
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