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Title:

The Urban underclass / Christopher Jencks, Paul E. Peterson, editors.

Publisher:

Brookings Institution,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

xiv, 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Urban poor--United States.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Inner cities--United States.
Urban policy--United States.
United States--Race relations.
Afro americanos--Condiciones económicas.
Afro americanos--Condiciones sociales.
Política urbana--EE. UU.
EE. UU.--Relaciones raciales.
Armoede.
Stedelijke omgeving.
Negers.
Lagere klassen.
Pauvres en milieu urbain--États-Unis.
Noirs américains--Conditions économiques.
Noirs américains--Conditions sociales.
Ghettos--États-Unis.
Politique urbaine--États-Unis.
États-Unis--Relations raciales.

Other Authors:

Jencks, Christopher.
Peterson, Paul E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The urban underclass and the poverty paradox / Paul E. Peterson -- Is the American underclass growing? / Christopher Jencks -- Employment and earnings of disadvantaged young men in a labor shortage economy / Richard B. Freeman -- Gains from growth? : the impact of full employment on poverty in Boston / Paul Osterman -- Joblessness and shiftlessness : labor force activity in Chicago's inner city / Marta Tienda and Haya Stier -- Teenage underclass behavior and subsequent poverty : have the rules changed? / Greg J. Duncan and Saul D. Hoffman -- Socioeconomic change and the decline of marriage for blacks and whites / Robert D. Mare and Christopher Winship -- "We'd love to hire them, but ..." : the meaning of race for employers / Joleen Kirschenman and Kathryn M. Neckerman.
Ghetto poverty in the United States, 1970-1980 / Paul A. Jargowsky and Mary Jo Bane -- Residential segregation of social and economic groups among blacks, 1970-1980 / Reynolds Farley -- Effects of neighborhoods on dropping out of school and teenage childbearing / Jonathan Crane -- How much does a high school's racial and socioeconomic mix affect graduation and teenage fertility rates? / Susan E. Mayer -- Employment and earnings of low-income blacks who move to middle-class suburbs / James E. Rosenbaum and Susan J. Popkin -- The political behavior of poor people / Jeffrey M. Berry, Kent E. Portney, and Ken Thomson -- Neighborhood effects on teenage pregnancy / Elijah Anderson -- Culture, rationality, and the underclass / J. David Greenstone.
Targeting within universalism : politically viable policies to combat poverty in the United States / Theda Skocpol -- Universal and targeted approaches to relieving poverty : an alternative view / Robert Greenstein -- Public policy research and The truly disadvantaged / William Julius Wilson.

ISBN:

0815746059 (pbk.)
9780815746058 (pbk.)
9780815746058 (pbk.) :
0815746059 (pbk.) :
0815746067 (cloth)
9780815746065 (cloth)
9780815746065 (cloth) :
0815746067 (cloth) :

LCCN:

90023619

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