This is the first in a series on the long-term forces affecting U.S. Social Policy. This issue discusses the major change in income distribution beginning in the late 1970s. This is the first in a series on the long-term forces affecting U.S. Social Policy. Helping Disconnected Youth by Improving Linkages Between High Schools and Careers by Robert I. Lerman Improving the educational and employment outcomes of urban disadvantaged and minority youth is critical if the United States is to reduce the nation's high rates of poverty, social and family disruption, and alienation. Unfortunately, many current patterns are not promising.
Unemployment remains extremely high for minority and disadvantaged youth.
This is the first in a series on the social and economic mobility in the United States. Liberals believe that this level of inequality is incompatible with economic justice but never define the benchmark against which progress should be measured. Conservatives argue that inequality reflects differences in individual talent and effort, and as such is a spur to economic growth as well as the price we pay for living in a free society. Yet, even conservatives have largely accepted a certain amount of redistribution.