Stressing that discrimination has been severely underplayed rather than regarded as a primary cause of African American unemployment, President Reagan's Conservative Fiscal Policy decries America's failure to break a vicious cycle of poverty, crime, and unemployment among African Americans and meticulously dissectes what did not work for the benefit of future efforts to combat this social problem.

And unwed childbearing drives a cycle of poverty, troubled relationships, and nonmarriage, thus contributing to the growing marriage divide.

As he put it bluntly in that New Orleans speech, "It is entrepreneurship that helps break the cycle of poverty, and we will take the side of entrepreneurs.