The Public Interest, Spring 1990.

Excerpt:

IS THE UNDERCLASS an American phenomenon? It often seems so. Reports about Western Europe’s social democracies typically portray societies in which the low-income class is hardworking and responsible. Only the United States of America, these reports suggest, is stricken with a large urban population that seems mired at the bottom of society, disorganized and demoralized.

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