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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED339765 AUTHOR: Jencks, Christopher, Ed.; Peterson, Paul E., Ed.


TITLE: The Urban Underclass.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 499 p.; Papers Presented at a Conference Sponsored by
the Social Science Research Council's Committee for
Research on the Urban Underclass and Northwestern
University's Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research
(Evanston, IL, October 1989).
AVAILABILITY: The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts
Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036 ($14.95), paper; ISBN-0
8157-4606-7--$34.95 cloth).

ABSTRACT: This book comprises 19 essays that attempt to
tell the truth about urban poverty, social dislocation, and
changes in American family life. They show that the rise in
the percentage of children living in poverty is due to an
increasing number of female-headed households and a decline
in the earnings of young men. The following papers are
included: (1) "The Urban Underclass and the Poverty
Paradox" (P. E. Peterson); (2) "Is the American Underclass
Growing?" (C. Jencks); (3) "Employment and Earnings of
Disadvantaged Young Men in a Labor Shortage Economy" (R. B.
Freeman); (4) "Gains from Growth? The Impact of Full
Employment on Poverty in Boston" (P. Osterman); (5)
"Joblessness and Shiftlessness: Labor Force Activity in
Chicago's Inner City" (M. Tienda and H. Stier); (6)
"Teenage Underclass Behavior and Subsequent Poverty: Have
the Rules Changed?" (G. J. Duncan and S. D. Hoffman); (7)
"Socioeconomic Change and the Decline of Marriage for
Blacks and Whites" (R. D. Mare and C. Winship); (8) "'We'd
Love To Hire Them, But...': The Meaning of Race for
Employers" (J. Kirschenman and K. M. Neckerman); (9)
"Ghetto Poverty in the United States, 1970 1980" (P. A.
Jargowsky and M. J. Bane); (10) "Residential Segregation of
Social and Economic Groups among Blacks, 1970 80" (R.
Farley); (11) "Effects of Neighborhoods on Dropping
Out of School and Teenage Childbearing" (J. Crane); (12)
"How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix
Affect Graduation and Teenage Fertility Rates?" (S. E.
Mayer); (13) "Employment and Earnings of Low-Income Blacks
Who Move to Middle-Class Suburbs" (J. E. Rosenbaum and S.
J. Popkin); (14) "The Political Behavior of Poor People"
(J. M. Berry, K. E. Portney, and K. Thomson); (15)
"Neighborhood Effects on Teenage Pregnancy" (E. Anderson);
(16) "Culture, Rationality, and the Underclass" (J. D.
Greenstone); (17) "Targeting within Universalism:
Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United
States" (T. Skocpol); (18) "Universal and Targeted
Approaches to Relieving Poverty: An Alternative View" (R.
Greenstein); and (19) "Public Policy Research and the Truly
Disadvantaged" (W. J. Wilson). There are 73 tables of
statistical data and 23 illustrative figures. (SLD)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: At-Risk-Persons; Blacks-; Ghettos-; Inner
City; Racial-Discrimination; Sociocultural-Patterns;
Socioeconomic-Status; Urban-Areas; Urban-Problems; Urban
Youth
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Economically-Disadvantaged; *Employment
Patterns; *Lower-Class; *Poverty-; *Public-Policy; *Social
Class

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