Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)
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Have Illegals Paid for Iraq?
November 22, 2007
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The Immigration Charade
September 27, 2007
State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
by Patrick J. Buchanan
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‘What Happened to Welfare?’
April 6, 2006
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What Happened to Welfare?
December 15, 2005
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare
by Jason DeParle
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‘Who Should Get In?’: An Exchange
May 23, 2002
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Who Should Get In? Part II
December 20, 2001
Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation
by Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut
The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience
edited by Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind
Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America
by Roberto Suro
Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy
by George J. Borjas
Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities
by Mary C. Waters
The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston
The Case Against Immigration
by Roy Beck
The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform
by James G. Gimpel and James R. Edwards Jr
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Who Should Get In?
November 29, 2001
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
by Shepard Krech III
The Case Against Immigration
Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy
America’s Demography in the New Century: Aging Baby Boomers and New Immigrants as Major Players by William Frey and Ross DeVol
The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience
Immigration from Mexico: Assessing the Impact on the United States by Steven Camarota
The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration
edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston
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Hope for Labor
February 1, 1996
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Housing the Homeless
May 12, 1994
Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s by Martha R. Burt
A Place to Call Home: The Low Income Housing Crisis Continues Information Service by Edward Lazere, by Paul Leonard, by Cushing Dolbeare, by Barry Zigas
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow
The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy by the New York City Commission on the Homeless (Andrew Cuomo, chair)
Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness by Peter H. Rossi
New Homeless and Old: Community and the Skid Row Hotel by Charles Hoch, by Robert Slayton
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The Homeless
April 21, 1994
Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s by Martha R. Burt
The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy by the New York City Commission on the Homeless
Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness by Peter H. Rossi
Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People by David A. Snow, by Leon Anderson
The Mole People by Jennifer Toth
Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community
by David Wagner
Rude Awakenings: What the Homeless Crisis Tells Us by Richard W. White Jr.
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The Election and the Future: A Symposium
December 22, 1988
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Genes and Crime: An Exchange
June 11, 1987
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Genes & Crime
February 12, 1987
Crime and Human Nature
by James Q. Wilson, by Richard J. Herrnstein
Confronting Crime: An American Challenge by Elliott Currie
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‘Losing Ground’: An Exchange
October 24, 1985
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How Poor Are the Poor?
May 9, 1985
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 19501980 by Charles Murray
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Jobs and Blacks
November 24, 1983
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Ethnic America: An Exchange
June 16, 1983
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Special Treatment for Blacks?
March 17, 1983
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
Markets and Minorities by Thomas Sowell
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Discrimination and Thomas Sowell
March 3, 1983
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
Markets and Minorities by Thomas Sowell
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Birth & Fortune
January 21, 1982
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Destiny’s Tots
October 8, 1981
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare
by Richard A. Easterlin
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The Moynihan Report
October 14, 1965
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Democracy
July 30, 1964
Obstacle Course on Capitol Hill by Robert Bendiner
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Hard Marker
January 9, 1964
American EducationA National Failure by Admiral H.G. Rickover