Your white knighting of Shapiro is offensive. He's dog whistling. How do I know? Your comment below is vague & misleading-
What do we actually do for low income single mothers of any color? Medicaid. SNAP benefits. Housing assistance. Daycare so they can work. Educational benefits. Counseling. And not necessarily all of that, either.
So what else is there? You tell me. Tell me what policies Shapiro is talking about.
Then tell me how any of that policy is counterproductive, that it somehow "might actually be at best wasteful and at worst harmful."
I'm going to respond once.
Those assistance programs for single mothers cannot undo the other policies that harm black communities. As I already said, the war on drugs has disproportionately affected Black communities more. The fathers of children are more likely to go to prison. They are also more likely to die from murder as murder has far too often been the main cause of death for young males.
Black start behind because of the aforementioned, and fall further behind as Black males have less access to assistance than their Black female counterparts.
When the assistance programs are meant to help women more than men, the men fall further behind increasingly driving more single mother households.
Help needs to come to Black males too as they seem to be underserved.