William Julius Wilson Quotes
- Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
- Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just…
- But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These…
- A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the…
- There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.
- During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great…
- I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in…
- Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened…
- The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
- The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
- There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
- Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.