Harry Holzer – What's Holding Back Black Boys & Men?
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Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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0:59 How Harry met Glenn
3:44 Black girls and women are doing relatively well. Why aren’t black boys and men?
11:21 Harry: Some of the barriers are structural, some are cultural
18:20 The crude toolkit for fixing child support
25:15 Black teachers, tutoring, and “high-quality career and tech ed”
31:44 In schools, one size doesn’t fit all
35:22 Three ways to improve employment prospects
39:10 Glenn asks “the Chicago question”
42:09 Discrimination against ex-convicts
50:38 Immigration’s impact on black employment
53:29 Are too many people in prison?
56:07 Harry: Progressives are oblivious to the backlash they generate
Recorded August 20, 2024
Links and Readings
Harry and Richard J. Freeman’s 1986 edited collection, The Black Youth Employment Crisis
Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
Isabel V. Sawhill’s book, Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage
Douglas Harris’s book, Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
Glenn’s paper with Young-Chul Kim, “Rebranding Ex-Convicts”
William Julius Wilson’s book, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
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| 0:46.1 | Hello Harry Holzer, how are you? |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm good, Glenn. |
| 0:49.6 | It's nice to see you. |
| 0:51.1 | Good to see you too. |
| 0:51.8 | This is indeed, Glen Lowry, and if you're watching you've found the Glen Show and my guest today is the |
| 1:01.0 | economist whom I've known for a long time. |
| 1:03.0 | And I think I first met you when you were a graduate student |
| 1:05.2 | at Harvard. |
| 1:05.8 | I believed that you were working with Richard Freeman, |
| 1:08.5 | were you not? |
| 1:09.4 | That's right. |
| 1:10.0 | It was over 40 years ago. |
| 1:11.4 | It was in the early 1980s. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, it was in the 80s. |
| 1:14.8 | Anyway, anyway, my guess is Harry Holzer. |
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