The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?
Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and failures of the diverse strategies that Johnson and his successors
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Was Moynihan Right?
In his 1965 report on the black family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlighted the rising fraction of black children growing up in households headed by unmarried mothers.
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success.
The Travails of Urban Field Research
Alice Goffman’s book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is one of those rare publications by a sociologist that creates an immediate splash both within and outside academia.
Gender Gap Report 2014
Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their progress over time.
On America's Front Lines
On the Run is an engrossing book that should also become an ethnographic classic. It describes the world of young jobless black men who have seldom finished high school.
Marginality, Ethnicity and Penality: A Response to Loïc Wacquant
This article responds to Loïc Wacquant's elaboration of his overarching theoretical framework in his stimulating article ‘Marginality, Ethnicity and Penality in the Neo-liberal City: An Analytic Carto
Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed This article examines what legal reforms are needed for home-based producers, st
Why Women Don’t Negotiate Their Job Offers
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise?
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