How To Help The Truly Disadvantaged
Years before affirmative action was in jeopardy, Wilson advocated race-neutral policies to alleviate inequality by getting the disadvantaged -of all races –into good jobs. His ideas, drawn from years of research into Chicago poverty, get at crucial factors-some profound. Some strikingly mundane–often overlooked in the debate over affirmative action: There are low-skill jobs available for the urban poor. The problem is, the jobs are often in suburban industrial parks, and it’s tough for applicants to get to such places from the inner city....