Race and Gender in the American Economy: Views from across the Spectrum

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I. VIEWS FROM ACROSS THE SPECTRUM. 1. My View. and Gender Issues Arise in Economics. Robert Solow. Inequality in the Economy Today. Glen Loury. and Income Differences. June Ellenoff O'Neill. Loaded Dice in the Labor Market: Racial Discrimination and William Darity, Jr. 2. Three Economic Paradigms. Conservative/Free Market, the Liberal/Imperfectionist, and the Radical/Exploitation Schools. Susan F. Feiner. 3. Women, Minorities, and the Recent Economic History of Inequality. Untouched by the Rising Tide. David Cutler and Lawrence Katz. Contrary to Popular Myth, the Economic Boom Did Trickle Down. Gary Becker. Trends: Implications for Family Policy? Shirley L. Zimmerman. Blacks: World Apart. Left in the Dust. Randy Albeda. II. EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION. 4. The Changing World of Work. Meet Your Workforce. Sharon Nelton. Reflects on You. Ann Wendt and William Slonaker. Reaching for the Dream. William O'Hare. American Indians in the 1990's. Dan Frost. do Demographic Changes Affect Labor Force Participation of Women? Daniel Lichter and Janice A. Costanzo. Spare Sex. 5. Alternative Approaches to Diversity. Women's Staunchest Allies: Supply and Demand. Gary Becker. Women as a Business Imperative. Felice Schwartz. Can We Solve Black Youth Unemployment? Harry Holzer. Occupational Apartheid. Steven Steinberg. A Limit to Affirmative Action? James Blanton. Saving Affirmative Action. James Forman Jr. 6. Access, Earnings, and Education. Sins of Admission. Dinesh D'Souza. are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges? John Larew. Minority Access: Question of Equity. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Campus Racism. Walter E. Williams. Barriers in the Path of the Non-College-Bound. Anne Lewis. 7. Discrimination in Education. Classroom Climate for Women. Bernice R. Sandler. Are Girls Shortchanged in School? Rita Kramer. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans. Claude Steele.D American Indians in Higher Education: History of Cultural Conflict. Bobby Wright and William G. Tierney. Latino Youths at a Crossroads. Luis Duany and Karen Pittman. Rich Schools, Poor Schools. Arthur Wise and Tamar Gendler. III. HOUSEHOLDS, HABITATS AND HEALTH. 8. Vanishing Dreams of America's Young Families. Marian Wright Edelman. Family. Lester Thurow. At Issue: Do Men Experience a Huge Rise in Their Standard of Living After Divorce? Lenore J. Weitzman and Jed H. Abraham. Politics of Family in America. Jewell Gresham. 9. Children. Liberals, Conservatives, and the Family. Jessica Gress-Wright. New Start for Head Start. Douglas Besharov. Day-Care Reform Juggernaut. Ron Haskins and Hank Brown. A Fresh Start on Welfare Reform. Barbara Bergmann. 10. Community. Segregation Forever? Dan Gillmor and Stephen K. Doig. Enterprise Zones are No Solution for Our Blighted Areas. Sar A. Levitan and Elizabeth I. Miller. Redlining Cities: How Banks Color Community Development. Peter Dreier. 11. Culture and Behavior. Results from a Chicago Project Lead Social Scientists to a Rethinking of the Urban Underclass. Chris Raymond. Nihilism in Black America: Danger That Corrodes from Within. Cornell West. Rescuing the Urban Poor. Thomas H. Kean. Poverty Industry: Do Governments and Charities Create the Poor? Theresa Funiciello. Self-Help-A Black Tradition. Dorothy Height. 12. What Health-Care Crisis? Fred Barnes. Medical Apartheid: An Perspective. Durado D. Brooks, David R. Smith, and Ron Anderson. Women and Health Care: Unneeded Risks. Leonard Abramson. Hispanic Health in the United States. Council on Scientific Affairs. Pleading Poverty. Donald Korn. Paying for Health. Sir Douglas Black. IV. EVALUATING FAIRNESS, ELIMINATING INEQUALITY. 13. Economics, Policies, and Justice. What's So Bad About Being Poor? Charles Murray. Workfare Fails. Sarah k. Gideonse and William R. Myers. A Marshall Plan for America: Land of Diverse People Living and Working Together. John E. Jacob. Reparations for Black Americans. Charles Krauthammer. Pay Equity-Surprising Answers to Hard Questions. Barbara R. Bergmann. is Affirmative Action Like Crop Subsidies? Gary S. Becker. Great Society Didn't Fail. Margaret Burnham. 14. Diversity, Ideology, and the Struggle for Equality. Class Struggles. Robert Reinhold. Don't Be Happy-Worry. Susan Faludi. Equality: Why We Can't Wait. Adolph Reed Jr., and Julian Bond. Bishops on the U.S. Economy. James R. Crotty and James R. Stormes.