Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City
Jargowsky (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) provides a data-rich description and a conceptually innovative explanation of the spread of neighborhood poverty in the United States between 1970 and 1990. Basing his analysis on census data, he finds that the number of residents of areas with a 40 percent or higher poverty rate almost doubled in the 1970s and 1980s. He explains the growth and concentration of poverty in the black ghettos, Hispanic barrios, white slums, and ethnically "mixed slums" in terms of broader economic changes. To address ghetto poverty, he recommends metropolitan areawide policies to increase productivity and reduce inequality and segregation because the problem is bigger than neighborhoods and ghetto cultures. Urban scholars and policymakers alike should find Jargowsky's compelling arguments thought-provoking. For academic collections.?William Waugh Jr., Georgia State Univ., AtlantaCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.