The truly disadvantaged
Subtitle: the inner city, the underclass, and public policy
By: William Julius Wilson
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226901268
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Inner cities; Race relations; Economic conditions; Urban policy; Social conditions; Urban poor; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: 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; title: Issues / with Kathryn Neckerman; title: Joblessness versus welfare effects: a further reexamination / with Robert Aponte and Kathryn Neckerman; 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.