A history of racism 4. A culture that stresses materialism 5. A lack of quality black leadership 6. Moral reasoning which would produce coalition strategies and black cultural democracy. There is a relationship between the health of the economy and the poverty rate.
Many people lack the skills required by our increasingly sophisticated economy.
Many good jobs are outside the central cities. Wages are held down by fringes. Changes in welfare population. Feds are allowing the economy to grow too slowly. Poverty is not a single problem.