The Underclass
by Auletta, KenEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Overlook Pr
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Summary
Auletta began with a seemingly simple goal - to find out who, exactly, make up the poorest of the poor, and to trace the many paths that took them there. As he follows 250 harden members of the underclass, Auletta focuses on efforts to help them reconstruct their lives and find a functional place in mainstream society. Through the lives of the men and women he encounters, Auletta discovers the complex truths that have made hard-core poverty in America such an intractable problem.
Author Biography
Ken Auletta is the communications columnist for The New Yorker.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| The BT-27 Class | p. 27 |
| Profile of the Underclass: Its Size, Causes and Effects | p. 37 |
| The Class Versus the Experts | p. 84 |
| Howard Smith: Life-Skills Teacher | p. 99 |
| Single Mothers: "The Feminization of Poverty" | p. 104 |
| BT-27 on Broken Families, Unemployment, Racism, Crime | p. 118 |
| Crime: The Law-Enforcement View | p. 136 |
| The "Welfare Mentality" | p. 155 |
| BT-27: Goals and Obstacles | p. 171 |
| BT-27 After Ten Weeks | p. 183 |
| Who Is to Blame, the System or the Individual? | p. 195 |
| Appalachia: The White Underclass | p. 209 |
| The Rural Black Underclass | p. 229 |
| Differences: The White, Black and Hispanic Underclass | p. 253 |
| BT-27 Graduates | p. 259 |
| What Became of the Members of BT-27 | p. 270 |
| MDRC and Supported Work: Results of a National Experiment | p. 282 |
| A Guaranteed Job for Youths: The National Results | p. 300 |
| Lingering Questions | p. 311 |
| Has There Been Progress in the "War on Poverty"? | p. 316 |
| What To Do? The Wholesale Option | p. 332 |
| The Laissez-Faire Option | p. 351 |
| The Retail Option | p. 361 |
| Epilogue | p. 383 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 387 |
| Bibliography | p. 389 |
| Index | p. 407 |
| About the Author | p. 416 |
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