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...recipients it is highly dubious that the job market can absorb such a great influx of unskilled or marginally skilled workers. The precious little funds that have been allotted for job training are woefully inadequate. And the true victims of the welfare bill are children--a study by the Urban Institute and an internal report by the HHS estimate that one million children will be pushed into poverty as a result of the new welfare policies. While the welfare bill, to some extent, may reduce dependency and corruption in the system and encourage a stronger work ethic, the social safety...
...forty-eight," has taken him through a range of styles. After an early phase of neat, metrical poems, and a later bout with surrealism, his poetry has more recently developed certain regular characteristics: the use of ordinary diction; an engagement with certain issues, especially family history, the difference between urban and rural life and the approach of death; and, frequently, the use of a central conceit, sometimes quite fantastic, to structure his poems. This last tendency is best illustrated in The Museum of Clear Ideas, Hall's 1993 book, in which one poem is framed as his explanation the game...
Studying the Urban Poor...
Wilson's most recent book, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, is a case in point...
Every year the sociology graduate students at Chicago put on a program called the "Spring Follies" that includes skits about faculty members. One year in particular, when Wilson's urban poverty research received millions of dollars of grants from several foundations, his research assistants decided to do a skit about...