Why Eradicating Urban Poverty Requires a Long Term Multi‐Program 'War': A Review of Anti‐Poverty Strategies for the Needs of the Late 70s

In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 249-266

Abstract

Abstract. Identifying who are the urban poor may help determine why poverty exists in our cities; and, of course, knowing why people are poor is a prerequisite for designing effective policies to eradicate the problem. As the statistics presented in this paper demonstrate, poverty has many causes and, therefore, a successful 'war' on poverty will necessarily have to be long term and multi‐programmed. One essential part of that 'war,' of course, will be an attack on racial and sexual discrimination in labor markets; but, as this paper's analysis of the possible underlying causes of such discrimination points out, economic progress alone may be insufficient—racial and sexual prejudice itself will have to be eradicated.