The truly disadvantaged
Subtitle: the inner city, the underclass, and public policy
By: William Julius Wilson.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Chicago
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780226901312
Subjects: Urban poor -- United States.; Inner cities -- United States.; Urban policy -- United States.; African Americans -- Economic conditions.; African Americans -- Social conditions.; Ciudades perdidas -- EE. UU.; Política urbana -- EE. UU.; Afro americanos -- Condiciones económicas.; Afro americanos -- Condiciones sociales.; United States -- Race relations.; EE. UU. -- Relaciones raciales.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: The ghetto underclass, poverty, and social dislocations:; title: Cycles of deprivation and the ghetto underclass debate --; title: Social change and social dislocations in the inner city --; title: Poverty and family structure: the widening gap between evidence and public policy issues (with Kathryn Neckerman) --; title: Joblessness versus welfare effects: a further reexamination (with Robert Aponte and Kathryn Neckerman) -- -- pt. 2.; title: The ghetto underclass and public policy:; title: Race-specific policies and the truly disadvantaged --; title: The limited visions of race relations and the war on poverty --; title: The hidden agenda -- -- Appendix:; title: Urban poverty: a state-of-the-art review of the literature (with Robert Aponte).