Race, poverty, and domestic policy

Historical overview of race and poverty from Reconstruction to 1969 / C. Michael Henry

Economic inequality and income inequality

From income inequality to economic inequality / Amartya K. Sen

Racial and ethnic economic inequality : a cross-national perspective / William A. Darity, Jr.

Issues in measurement of inequality and poverty

Measuring poverty: issues and approaches / Daniel H. Weinberg

Medical spending, health insurance, and measurement of American poverty / Gary Burtless and Sarah Siegel

Structural causes of African American poverty

The dynamic racial composition of the United States / Tukufu Zuberi

The new geography of inequality in urban America / Douglas S. Massey

The disparate racial neighborhood impacts of metropolitan economic restructuring / George Galster, Ronald Mincy, and Mitch Tobin

Critical factors militating against Black progress: retrospect and prospect

The demise of a dinosaur: analyzing school and housing desegregation in Yonkers / Jennifer Hochschild and Michael N. Danielson

Suburban exclusion and the courts: can a class-based remedy reduce urban segregation? / Gary Orfield

Civil rights and the status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s / Reynolds Farley

Poverty, racism, and migration: the health of the African American population / David R. Williams

The American news media and public misperceptions of race and poverty / Martin Gilens

The differential impact of skills on earnings

U.S. education and training policy: a reevaluation of the underlying assumptions behind the "new consensus" / James J. Heckman

The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination / Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, and Frank Levy

Escalating differences and elusive "skills": cognitive abilities and the explanation of inequality / Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Robert Szarka

Earnings of black and white youth and their relation to poverty / Philip M. Gleason and Glen G. Cain

Racial and familial hardship: welfare benefits and welfare reform

Teenage childbearing and personal responsibility: an alternative view / Arline T. Geronimus

Where should teen mothers live? What should we do about it? / Harold Pollack

Family allowances and poverty among lone mother families in the United States / Cecilia A. Conrad

How much more can they work? Setting realistic expectations for welfare mothers / LaDonna Pavetti

Turning our backs on the New Deal: the end of welfare in 1996 / Jeffrey Lehman and Sheldon Danziger

Fighting poverty: lessons from recent U.S. history / Rebecca M. Blank

Communal hardship in Black residential areas: crime and law enforcement

Crime, poverty, and entrepreneurship / Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

Violence and the inner-city street code / Elijah Anderson

Economic development of Black communities

Minority business development programs: failure by design / Timothy Bates

A social accounting matrix model of inner-city New Haven: an alternative framework for development / C. Michael Henry.