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Digitized at Georgetown University Law Library, xiv, 490 pages : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, Ghetto poverty in the United States, 1970-1980 / Paul A. Jargowsky and Mary Jo Bane -- Residential segregation of social and economic groups among blacks, 1970-1980 / Reynolds Farley -- Effects of neighborhoods on dropping out of school and teenage childbearing / Jonathan Crane -- How much does a high school's racial and socioeconomic mix affect graduation and teenage fertility rates? / Susan E. Mayer -- Employment and earnings of low-income blacks who move to middle-class suburbs / James E. Rosenbaum and Susan J. Popkin -- The political behavior of poor people / Jeffrey M. Berry, Kent E. Portney, and Ken Thomson -- Neighborhood effects on teenage pregnancy / Elijah Anderson -- Culture, rationality, and the underclass / J. David Greenstone, Targeting within universalism : politically viable policies to combat poverty in the United States / Theda Skocpol -- Universal and targeted approaches to relieving poverty : an alternative view / Robert Greenstein -- Public policy research and The truly disadvantaged / William Julius Wilson, The urban underclass and the poverty

Author
Jencks, Christopher; Peterson, Paul E.
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution
Published
1991
Language
EN
ISBN
9780815746065
Subjects
Science, Sociology, Political Science
Updated
2026-03-24

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