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...sided and punitive the welfare-reform debate has become is underscored in sociologist William Julius Wilson's new book, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. It is the most thoroughgoing examination ever of the damage caused by long-term joblessness to people in the ghetto...
...version of reform that became law last week, Wilson sees both sides of the welfare dilemma. He has no quarrel with the need to do away with welfare as we knew it by moving recipients to jobs. Indeed, he considers it vital to arrest the long slide of the ghetto poor into dependence and pathology. But Wilson asks a simple question for which Clinton and the Republicans have so far provided only the vaguest of answers: Where are these jobs going to come from? He raised the question again in a memorandum that he faxed to Clinton last week...
...Isaac Tigrett, suggested the black community had turned its back on the blues music genre. How could this middle-aged yuppie white man make an intelligent assessment of the role blues has in our community? Blues is a result of the racism, poverty and hopelessness felt in the black ghetto, experiences Tigrett has never been familiar with. For the record, blues music was never ignored by the black community; it has simply manifested itself in different genres such as hip-hop, R. and B. (rhythm and blues) and gospel. Before Tigrett makes his billions off the blues tradition, maybe...
...underclass owed its existence to entrenched racial discrimination and the conservative charge that its impoverishment was due to cultural deficiencies and dependence on welfare. Instead Wilson pointed to sweeping changes in the global economy that pulled low-skill industrial jobs out of the inner city, the flight from the ghetto of its most stable residents for a better life elsewhere, and the lingering effects of past discrimination. All these, he theorized, doomed inner-city blacks to a life of "concentrated poverty" that conventional government programs could not ameliorate. Says Wilson: "It's quite clear to me that we're going...
...many inner-city neighborhoods are not working in a typical week." In this environment, Wilson argues, people have little chance to gain the educational and social skills that would make them attractive to employers. In a series of interviews, several employers admitted that a home address in the ghetto was sufficient reason to reject a job applicant. People from such areas, one executive said, "are not dependable. They have never been taught that when you have a job, you have to be there at a certain time and you're to stay there until the time is finished...