The greatest of evils: urban poverty and the American underclass
The debate on persisting poverty in the United States, somewhat dampened for the past decade, has now been fully rekindled. Devine and Wright have entered that debate with an analysis that is both quantitative and qualitative, informed on the one side by urban ethnography and steeped in official sta...
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| Summary: | The debate on persisting poverty in the United States, somewhat dampened for the past decade, has now been fully rekindled. Devine and Wright have entered that debate with an analysis that is both quantitative and qualitative, informed on the one side by urban ethnography and steeped in official statistics and relevant data on the other. The result is an incisive and cogently documented narrative account leading to policy recommendations for a new president and a new era. In The Greatest of Evils, Devine and Wright develop three principal themes. First they argue that poverty is by no means monolithic: each subgroup within the population in poverty tends to have different problems. Secondly, the so-called "underclass" within the poverty population represents a new and especially corrosive development, one that cannot be analyzed in traditional terms nor dealt with in traditions ways. Thirdly, the War on Poverty of the Sixties was not the unmitigated disaster that so many have come to believe, and offered a boldness of vision that today's poverty policies tend to lack. In exploring these themes, the authors show how the social and economic costs of poverty-related problems exceed what it will cost to find remedies that address the underlying causes of residual poverty. |
| Physical Description: | XXVII, 236 S. : graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0202304736 0202304744 |
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Poverty, Misery, and Waste xv
1 THE DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT OF
POVERTY 1
Absolute Versus Relative Definitions 2
Poverty, Policy, and Public Awareness in the
Twentieth Century 5
The War on Poverty 10
The Poverty Threshold 12
The Pros and Cons of the Poverty Standard 13
Reconsidering the Poverty Threshold 18
Data on Poverty 19
2 POVERTY THEN AND NOW: WHAT'S
DIFFERENT, WHAT'S THE SAME? 23
Trends in the Poverty Threshold, 1959 1990 23
Trends in Poverty, 1959 1990 27
The War on Poverty: Success or Failure? 30
Recent Trends in the Macroeconomy: Income
and Income Distribution 31
Employment Patterns 33
The Minimum Wage 35
Family, Work and Income 36
Poverty and Welfare 38
The "New American Poverty" 41
Conclusions 45
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viii Contents
3 THE CONTEMPORARY DEMOGRAPHY OF
POVERTY 49
The Working Poor 49
The Rural Poor 62
The Elderly Poor 65
Poverty among Children 68
Summary 71
4 WHO AND WHAT IS THE URBAN
UNDERCLASS? 77
Underclass and the Lumpen Proletariat 79
The Underclass and the New Urban Reality 81
Defining the Underclass 82
How Big Is the Underclass? 91
A Caveat on Geography, Region, and City
Size 92
Conclusions 93
5 THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY 95
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 97
Operationalizing Chronicity 97
Analyzing Persistent Poverty 102
Summary 115
A Footnote on Homelessness 118
6 THE INNER LOGIC OF THE UNDERCLASS 123
Out of Wedlock Births 132
Welfare 142
Unemployment, Subemployment, and
Labor Force Participation 148
Educational Attainment 158
Drug Abuse and the Drug/Crime
Connection 163
Crime and Victimization 173
Summary 185
Contents ix
7 AN AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE 189
Introduction 189
Poverty, Policy, and Economics 193
National Income and Welfare Policy 196
National Employment Policy 203
National Educational Policy 207
National Family Policy 212
National Health Policy 213
National Drug Policy 215
REFERENCES 219
AUTHOR INDEX 229
SUBJECT INDEX 231 |
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