The proportion of workers earning low wages in the American economy declined from 1963 through 1979. Since 1979, both the low-wage and the high-wage shares of employment have increased, leading to wage polarization. Analysis of Current Population Survey data indicates that this occurred for both...

Information gathered from five annual interviews with the adults in some 2,700 households in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s is used in this paper to demonstrate that welfare — Aid to Families with Dependent Children, AFDC for unemployed parents, and the various...

Community development activists recognize that some of the poorest neighborhoods in our biggest cities are among the most well situated in terms of access to the region of which they are a part. Scholars and activists often remark on the paradox of high inner-city poverty rates coexisting with...

Organizational restructuring during the 1980s consisted in part of efforts by large and small firms alike to achieve functional, wage or numerical `flexibility' in their relationships with employees. The practice of contracting-out, or `outsourcing' work which might otherwise have been performed...