Economic Gap Quotes by William Julius Wilson

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• 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…
• But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the…
• A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been…
• 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…
• I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was…
• Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class…
• 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…
• 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.

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