If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual ….

If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, ….

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers..

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the la….

If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certai….

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group..

Unemployment is higher in Europe than in the United States and primarily concentrated in immigrant minority populations, so people are worried about ….

I think it is difficult to achieve a meaningful political coalition if you have race-based programs that divide members of the coalition. The problem….

Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked about putting Amer….

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support.….

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in so….

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work..

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened si….

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measu….

Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different ….

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learni….

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering firs….

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich..

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came ….

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want ….

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it..