If you click on the links in the Brookings Institute study the write up for the following analysis pops up.
TLDR - Policy change will do very little because it depends on white people waking up tomorrow forgetting how to be racist. Reducing (less tolerance of) crime in black neighborhoods, more black men as hands on fathers, educators/administration and police presence in black neighborhoods will produce more upwardly mobile black men which will put a bigger dent in the wage gap than ANYTHING black women can do besides only reproducing with men whose socioeconomic value exceeds their own. That sounds great but would downwardly spiral overall black birthrates. What black women can take from these articles/statistics is to stop running forward to explain away why it's too hard for black men to step up and do their part in making the black community more self sufficient.
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Although closing this gap may appear to be a daunting challenge given its persistence, there are some encouraging signs that the problem can be solved. First, black children have rates of relative mobility comparable to whites: they are not stuck at the same income levels as their parents.
Closing the gap in opportunities between black and white children at a given parental income level could therefore eliminate much of the black-white income gap within two generations.
Second, the black-white gap is significantly smaller for boys who grow up in certain neighborhoods { those with low poverty rates, low levels of racial bias among whites,
and high rates of father presence among low-income blacks. Black boys who move to such areas at younger ages have significantly better outcomes,
demonstrating that racial disparities can be narrowed through changes in environment. The challenge is to replicate the conditions that lead to these smaller disparities more broadly across the country. Our findings suggest that many widely discussed proposals may be insufficient to narrow the black-white gap in the long run.
Policies focused on improving the economic outcomes of a single generation { such as cash transfer programs or minimum wage increases { can narrow the gap at a given point in time, but
are less likely to have persistent effects unless they also affect intergenerational mobility.
Policies that reduce residential segregation or enable black and white children to attend the same schools without achieving racial integration within neighborhoods and schools
would also likely leave much of the gap in place, since the gap persists even among low-income children raised on the same block.
Instead,
our results suggest that efforts that cut within neighborhoods and schools and improve environments for specific racial subgroups, such as black boys, may be more effective in reducing the black-white gap. Examples include mentoring programs for black boys, efforts to reduce racial bias among whites, or efforts to facilitate social interaction across racial groups within a given area (e.g., Devine et al. 2012; Heller et al. 2015). Our analysis does not offer guidance on which interventions of this type are most effective, but calls for greater focus on and evaluation of such efforts.
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_paper.pdf
You a mess!
You know this, I know this, we all know this. But if people wanna keep playing dumb and brand new like they just got here, I'm done explaining. I did my part for the youngins, explained the game how I see it. Other than that, I'm bout done on this topic.
I'm unclear about his job and kid situation. 
