Quote #26

In the long term, we're going to have to have programs to ensure that our kids are ready to enter the private labor market.

More from William Julius Wilson

  1. In the first half of the 1990s, there was an effort to severely divide racial and ethnic groups.
  2. Many of the government's actions aggravate rather than alleviate the stresses on ordinary families.
  3. If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system.
  4. Neighborhoods in which people are poor and working are entirely different from neighborhoods in which people are poor and jobless. Jobless …
  5. If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmati…
  6. No other major Western democracy has such a weak family support program.
  7. If a multiracial citizen's coalition were in place, it would have the muscle to pressure national public officials to consider seriously th…
  8. One of the reasons I came to Harvard, after being in Chicago for so many years, is the critical mass of public intellectuals at Harvard.

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