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Contents | January/Feburary 2003
Katherine Boo: Further reading for "The Black Gender Gap"
 
For further reading on the black gender gap see: Paul Offner and Harry Holzer, Left Behind in the Labor Market: Recent Employment Trends among Young Black Men, Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution, 2002.
www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/publications/offnerholzer.pdf.

For a more easily digested version see Offner's and Holzer's piece in The American Prospect: "Forgotten Men: The continuing crisis in black male unemployment, and how to remedy it."
www.prospect.org/print/V13/13/offner-p.html.

For a trove of academic research on the subject see the "Extending Opportunities Project"
www.siscenter.org/EOP_Papers/eop_links.html.

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