The Underclass Revisited - Paperback

by Charles Murray (Author)

This provocative and unflinching analysis reveals why America's underclass remains trapped despite falling crime rates and shrinking welfare rolls, as AEI scholar Charles Murray tracks illegitimacy, criminality, and labor force dropout from 1954 to 1997 to expose a "custodial democracy" that subsidizes and isolates the poor--challenging readers to confront welfare dependency, family breakdown, and urban poverty instead of looking away.

This book examines statistics on illegitimacy, criminality, and the dropout rate from the labor force for four checkpoints from 1954 to 1997.