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You know that? >> no, it isn't. they say it's going back up. let's not quibble over a couple of decimal points. why the big rise? >> it's not compulsory for women to marry. they're opting out of marriage. with an increase in unmarried women you're seeing a shift of wedlock births. >> do you feel that's a poverty driver? >> no. i think poverty relates to it but poverty is at the root. i think when you have people are locatewad where there are low access to jobs -- >> you don't think women having babies out of wed look, no black men in the home that -- >> you have it wrong. >> okay. i don't real...

You know that? >> no, it isn't. they say it's going back up. let's not quibble over a couple of decimal points. why the big rise? >> it's not compulsory for women to marry. they're opting out of marriage. with an increase in unmarried women you're seeing a shift of wedlock births. >> do you feel that's a poverty driver? >> no. i think poverty relates to it but poverty is at the root. i think when you have people are locatewad where there are low access to jobs -- >> you don't think women having babies out of wed look, no black men in the home that -- >> you have it wrong. >> okay. i don't real...

You know that? >> no, it isn't. they say it's going back up. let's not quibble over a couple of decimal points. why the big rise? >> it's not compulsory for women to marry. they're opting out of marriage. with an increase in unmarried women you're seeing a shift of wedlock births. >> do you feel that's a poverty driver? >> no. i think poverty relates to it but poverty is at the root. i think when you have people are locatewad where there are low access to jobs -- >> you don't think women having babies out of wed look, no black men in the home that -- >> you have it wrong. >> okay. i don't real...

Household is earning $23,000. it's all quite something different when we're talking about a working mother in a complete household, if you will, who's making on average $80,000 a year. and that is what i was getting to in this study. an area that is simply eluded -- >> just to crystallize it, were you talking about the lower income mothers who are the sole support of their children. and that there's chaos in a lot of those homes because there's no dad around or whatever. >> in those homes, those children are born into an at risk situation that is prone to drugs, prone to psychological illness,...

Enough to. described the crime as a simple assault. now t has been upgraded to a mob action. after almost a month, just one minor has been arrested despite the fact that scores of people witnessed the violence. the national media has also ig ford the story possibly because it has heavily racial implications. so, what's really going on here? right now, there are 39 million african-americans in the u.s.a. comprising 13% of the population. unemployment among blacks 13% as opposed to 8.1 for the general country. 27% of african-americans live below the poverty line and 72% of black mothers give bir...