The Urban Underclass
1st Edition
Published on 9. August 2001
508 pages
978-0-8157-2346-2 (ISBN)
Description
Many believe that the urban underclass in America is a large, rapidly increasing proportion of the population; that crime, teenage pregnancy, and high school dropout rates are escalating; and that welfare rolls are exploding. Yet none of these perceptions is accurate. Here, noted authorities, including William J. Wilson, attempt to separate the truth about poverty, social dislocation, and changes in American family life from the myths that have become part of contemporary folklore.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-2346-2 (9780815723462)
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Christopher Jencks | Paul E. Peterson
The Urban Underclass
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04/1991
Brookings Institution
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Persons
Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the author of The Homeless (Harvard, 1994) and Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (Harperperennial, 1993), and the coeditor of The Urban Underclass (Brookings, 1991). Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, the director of PEPG, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is author or editor of numerous books, including The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, with William G. Howell (Brookings, 2004 and 2006). He is coeditor (with Martin West) of No Child Left Behind? The Practice and Politics of School Accountability (Brookings, 2003).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- PART ONE: THINKING ABOUT THE UNDERCLASS
- The Urban Underclass and the Poverty Paradox
- Is the American Underclass Growing?
- PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC CONDITION OF THE UNDERCLASS
- Employment and Earnings of Disadvantaged Young Men in a Labor Shortage Economy
- Gains from Growth? The Impact of Full Employment on Poverty in Boston
- Joblessness and Shiftlessness: Labor Force Activity in Chicago's Inner City
- Teenage Underclass Behavior and Subsequent Poverty: Have the Rules Changed?
- Socioeconomic Change and the Decline of Marriage for Blacks and Whites
- We'd Love to Hire Them, But . . .": The Meaning of Race for Employers
- PART THREE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF CONCENTRATED POVERTY
- Ghetto Poverty in the United States, 1970-1980
- Residential Segregation of Social and Economic Groups among Blacks, 1970-1980
- Effects of Neighborhoods on Dropping Out of School and Teenage Childbearing
- How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix Affect Graduation and Teenage Fertility Rates?
- Employment and Earnings of Low-Income Blacks Who Move to Middle-Class Suburbs
- The Political Behavior of Poor People
- PART FOUR: THE RATIONALE OF INNER-CITY LIFE
- Neighborhood Effects on Teenage Pregnancy
- Culture, Rationality, and the Underclass
- PART FIVE: THE POLICY RESPONSE
- Targeting within Universalism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United States
- Universal and Targeted Approaches to Relieving Poverty: An Alternative View
- Public Policy Research and The Truly Disadvantaged
- INDEX
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