william julius wilson's work on the true disadvantage had made this really clear. others would say such as late and american apartheid racial segregation what we thought had gone away at also got worse and had become enormously deleterious to the lives of families and children. and number obvious was this failure of urban policy evident than in the high-rise projects in our inner cities across america. in the early 1990s at the federal government did two things to respond to the journalistic account of children being hurt of nonstop drug trafficking and violence in neighborhoods like east and west baltimore. the first thing that happened, the federal government decided to tear down the largest high-rises in our american cities so it is deemed topic to the families and children inside. the second thing is an experience of moving to opportunity was born. that would give families and children in five cities, new york, chicago, l.a., baltimore boston a chance to leave high-rises and moved to lower poverty neighborhoods. things in baltimore wer or so de that both progra

here i again i have a lot to say itch discussion william julius wilson's analysis and his concerns about disappearing jobs. very interesting finding, kind of shocked me is how low a personal of working age unemployed men cite as the reason for their unemployment lack of jobs. now, some of these people are disabled but when i come to discussion of disability i will have something more to say about that. a fourth of possible causes, although certain lay accuse, is educational deficits. but here it's important to emphasize what we often forget, which is that while we're blaming poor schools, we really ought to realize that in fact the deficits that exist in children's opportunities and achievement begins well before they start in school. i'll have a bit more to say about that, including something about jim heckman's analysis of the problem. so, i talk about bad luck, family and community breakdown, disappearing jobs, occasional deficit. a fifth is isolation. here the sociology yeases have a lot of teach us. many of you may be familiar with a famous network sociologist whose how written abou

out there, who were also hads, but you people like glen lowry, shelby then even people like william julius wilson, patterson, and steven carter, iconic classic writers like stanley crouch. there, sayingout time.odox things at the kennedy was another one of them. the moved back left from center, where he was in the mid 90's. thisinking at the time was ground is covered. distinguishd to myself here, and when i want to write on race i will. that was pretty much my attitude the first 15 years of my professional life as a journalist with the "wall street journal." first book was about immigration. be a topicappened to that the covered for the "wall journal" editorial page and turned it into a book. immigration interesting. i didn't have a dog in the fight. i wasn't a immigrant, wasn't the child of immigrants, and decided a book about it. i thought that's what i would find something interesting and write about it. guyshen a lot of these admired in terms of their thoughts an views of racial issues were getting up there in age. younger see a generation of people coming along to replace them. it disturbed