Race, poverty, and domestic policy / edited by C. Michael Henry ; foreword by James Tobin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henry, C. Michael.

Series:

Yale ISPS series.

The Yale ISPS series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

United States--Social policy.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (819 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? The essays in this volume consider the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighbourhoods & few job opportunities & demonstrate how multiple causes reinforce each other.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Editor's Preface; Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969; Part I. Economic Inequality and Income Inequality; 1. From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality; 2. Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: A Cross-National Perspective; Part II. Issues in Measurement of Inequality and Poverty; 3. Measuring Poverty: Issues and Approaches 99; 4. Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty; Part III. Structural Causes of African American Poverty; 5. The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States

6. The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America7. The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring; Part IV. Critical Factors Militating Against Black Progress: Retrospect and Prospect; 8. The Demise of a Dinosaur: Analyzing School and Housing Desegregation in Yonkers; 9. Suburban Exclusion and the Courts: Can a Class-Based Remedy Reduce Urban Segregation?; 10. Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960's and the 1990's; 11. Poverty, Racism, and Migration: The Health of the African American Population

12. The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty Part V. The Differential Impact of Skills on Earnings; 13. U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Reevaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the ''New Consensus''; 14. The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination; 15. Escalating Differences and Elusive ''Skills'': Cognitive Abilities and the Explanation of Inequality; 16. Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty; Part VI. Racial and Familial Hardship: Welfare Benefits and Welfare Reform

17. Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility: An Alternative View18. Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It?; 19. Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States; 20. How Much More Can They Work? Setting Realistic Expectations for Welfare Mothers; 21. Turning Our Backs on the New Deal: The End of Welfare in 1996; 22. Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History; Part VII. Communal Hardship in Black Residential Areas: Crime and Law Enforcement; 23. Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship; 24. Violence and the Inner-City Street Code

Part VIII. Economic Development of Black Communities 25. Minority Business Development Programs: Failure by Design; 26. A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven: An Alternative Framework for Development; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-72224-3

9786611722241

0-300-12984-X

OCLC:

923589371