What Moynihan talked about back then is, I think is true today, and that is joblessness creates problem streams in the family. It leads to family break-ups resulting in an increasing number of families going on welfare.

What I did, you see, in The Truly Disadvantaged, as well as in When Work Disappears, I tried to demonstrate the importance of the environment in black life cha…

When work disappears, that is when a growing number of adults are not working, it has an effect not only on individual life, but on family life and neighborhoo…

Well, when there is this rising inequality, when there is this expanding gap between the haves and the have-nots, it creates an atmosphere that's not conducive…

[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the pr…

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

We must remember that the real problem is not how to produce some improvement in the condition of the working man- for that has to a certain extent been attain…