This noteworthy book documents how a broad range of communities--residential, occupational, ethni...

Thanks to advances in technology, medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, old age for many Ameri...

A very important contribution to the field of labor economics, and in particular to the understan...

The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. students pursuing a...

Changes in family and household composition are part of every individual's life course. Childhood...

A seismic population shift is taking place as many formerly racially homogeneous cities in the We...

"e;Culture counts"e; has long been a rallying cry among health advocates and policymakers...

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The years following World War II saw a huge expansion of the middle classes in the world's indust...

The positive social benefits of low unemployment are many-it helps to reduce poverty and crime an...

Concentrates on the historical, statutory, judicial, and administrative aspects of philanthropic ...

Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, esp...