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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED312372 AUTHOR: Mincy, Ronald B.


TITLE: Paradoxes in Black Economic Progress: Incomes,
Families, and the Underclass. Discussion Paper.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1989
NOTE: 28 p.
AVAILABILITY: The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20037.

ABSTRACT: This paper is a product of the "Changing Domestic
Priorities" project which has examined the shifts taking
place in the nation's economic and social policies under the
Reagan Administration and is now focusing on the major
economic and social problems facing the nation over the
coming decade. The following topics are discussed in this
paper: (1) trends in black economic progress; (2) how these
trends may have contributed to the development of an
underclass; (3) new estimates of the size and growth of the
underclass in a non-technical way; and (4) the implications
of these trends for policies aimed at reducing some of the
remaining disparities between blacks and whites and
assisting the most severely disadvantaged blacks. Three
tables, three figures, and 41 references are included. (JS)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Employment-Patterns;
Ghettos-; Low-Income; One-Parent-Family; Salary-Wage
Differentials; Semiskilled-Workers; Social-Problems; Urban
Environment
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Blacks-; *Economically-Disadvantaged;
*Economic-Change; *Lower-Class; *Racial-Bias; *Urban
Problems

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