Word: isolationism
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Where once the ghetto provided a mix of black social classes, now residents are bound together under the yoke of poverty and impoverished aspirations. In a forthcoming book, The Truly Disadvantaged, Wilson argues that those who have been left behind in the ghetto have inherited not "a culture of poverty...
Much of the recent debate over poverty has stressed the need to provide jobs and training for welfare recipients like Carla Smith. But by making welfare the crux of the problem, both liberals and conservatives have ignored the single most serious cause of the misery of the ghetto: the shockingly...
What can be done to break this iron triangle of social isolation, black joblessness and single-parent families? Even 20 years after the ghettos of Detroit and Newark erupted into the fires of long-suppressed rage, Americans cling to the sanguine faith that some magic formula can end this cycle...
Twenty years of failed programs, from community development to public housing, point to a depressing conclusion: little will be done to make the ghetto an acceptable place to live and raise children. This by no means suggests abandoning those trapped in the inner city. Rather, the emphasis of both government...
It is a new terror of the '80s: in Minneapolis a 29-year-old male prostitute who had known for at least two years that he had been infected with the AIDS virus continued to have sexual relations with his clients, mostly married bisexual men. Today fear of such reckless...