The New American PovertyEssay on the political aspects of poverty and social assistance in the USA, from 1960 to 1983 - covers the impact of structural unemployment, downward social mobility, and the plight of blacks, hispanics, American Indians, immigrants, irregular migrants and unmarried mothers (female headed households); criticizes the Reagan fiscal policy as causing income redistribution away from low income groups towards the middle class or wealthy. |
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Page 153
... Hispanics , $ 12,618 for blacks . At the top , 8.6 percent of Asians had incomes of more than $ 50,000 a year ( whites 6.2 percent , Hispanics 2.4 percent , blacks 1.9 percent ) . Conclusion : Asians are well off ? Not at all . I talked ...
... Hispanics , $ 12,618 for blacks . At the top , 8.6 percent of Asians had incomes of more than $ 50,000 a year ( whites 6.2 percent , Hispanics 2.4 percent , blacks 1.9 percent ) . Conclusion : Asians are well off ? Not at all . I talked ...
Page 162
... Hispanic ( about 75 percent of the Hispanics being Puerto Rican ) . Now it has grown , partly through mergers , to 28,000 members , but the ethnic and racial composition has been utterly transformed at the same time . About 60 percent ...
... Hispanic ( about 75 percent of the Hispanics being Puerto Rican ) . Now it has grown , partly through mergers , to 28,000 members , but the ethnic and racial composition has been utterly transformed at the same time . About 60 percent ...
Page 185
... Hispanic . In proportion to the population , the black rate was four times that of the Hispanics . It is clear that not only is it impossible to explain the crime of individuals simply by their poverty , but that there can also be a ...
... Hispanic . In proportion to the population , the black rate was four times that of the Hispanics . It is clear that not only is it impossible to explain the crime of individuals simply by their poverty , but that there can also be a ...
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