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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition

William Julius Wilson

Why did poverty and joblessness deepen in America's inner cities, and what public policy could help the truly disadvantaged?

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Author
William Julius Wilson

Why read it

  • You will see how the loss of manufacturing jobs and the movement of jobs to suburbs and overseas hit inner cities
  • You will stop treating race alone as the explanation, since the black middle class improved while the black underclass fell further behind
  • You will weigh evidence that joblessness, more than welfare, explains the rise of single parent families among the poor

Who it is for

  • A student of urban poverty and inequality
  • A policy maker designing job or antipoverty programs
  • A reader puzzled by debates over race and class

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Part 1: The Ghetto Underclass, Poverty, and Social Dislocations
  3. 1 Cycles of Deprivation and the Ghetto Underclass Debate
  4. 2 Social Change and Social Dislocations in the Inner City
  5. 3. Poverty and Family Structure: The Widening Gap between Evidence and Public Policy Issues (with Kathryn Neckerman)
  6. 4. Joblessness versus Welfare Effects: A Further Reexamination (with Robert Aponte and Kathryn Neckerman)
  7. Part 2: The Ghetto Underclass and Public Policy
  8. 5 Race-specific Policies and the Truly Disadvantaged
  9. 6 The Limited Visions of Race Relations and the War on Poverty
  10. 7 The Hidden Agenda
  11. Appendix: Urban Poverty: A State-of-the-Art Review of the Literature (with Robert Aponte)
  12. Part 3: Afterword
  13. Reflections on Responses to The Truly Disadvantaged
  14. Afterword Notes
  15. Afterword Bibliography

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