Abstract
This article attempts to demonstrate the urgent need to reconsider our current social policies and to revitalize government concern over our urban ghettos. Part II provides a historical background on how urban ghettos were formed in the United States. Part III discusses the Kerner Commission’s findings and the recommendations it made to President Lyndon Johnson and the American people. Part IV analyzes the social and economic regression experienced by inner-city communities during the past thirty years. Part V discusses the findings of the Eisenhower Foundation and describes the programs it espouses.
Finally, part VI, outlines recommendations on how the United States should approach improving the conditions of the disadvantaged members of our society. It argues that the problems of the ghetto underclass can best be addressed by a comprehensive program that combines policies designed to increase income and employment opportunities with a wealth-based policy that reaches all poor people as opposed to applying to race-specific strategies.
Recommended Citation
Dash T. Douglas,
A House Divided: The Social and Economic Underdevelopment of America's Inner Cities,
10 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y
(1999).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/jlpp/vol10/iss2/6