Here's an anecdote: If you're walking down the street and see a gang of black youths coming your way, how do you protect yourself? punchline: throw a basketball in the air. A simple racist joke. And yet this was exactly the policy prescribed for inner city youth(code for black) in the 1990's. The now even more controversial Clinton Crime Bill had this as a program within the bill and it became the lightning rod for the parties to argue over. That type of program was instituted across the country even before the crime bill and many lauded its success in dropping crime. Yet where's the studies of what it did for the actual participants, I doubt very much. Instead of re-examining crime, inner city living standards and race and social-economic inequalities that state offered a racist patch in the midnight basketball program. It was a small dollar amount in the bill but I believe a perfect example of the states ineptitude for dealing with issues largely of their creation. These failed policies never seem to get a top down review they're simply always regarded as underfunded. Sadly its just one of many programs that should disgust the very constituency its created for yet they seem to just garner more election victories for elitists like the Clintons who see no area of life that the state should not be involved,....and don't get me wrong the Republicans are right there with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_basketball