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Rise and Fall: Population, Urbanization and the Environment
There are numerous challenges facing most big cities in the United States today. These include managing population growth, adjusting to the post-industrial economy, and coping with class, racial and ethnic conflict. One option for those who can af...
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Ups and Downs: Women, Minorities and Social Class
Those who tumble out of America's lower middle class and into poverty generally don't constitute a random cross-section of the U.S. population. More often than not they are women and minorities.
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Ups and Downs: Diminishing Opportunity
The explosion of opportunity in America reached its peak in the Post-War boom years of the 1950s. But many sociologists contend that with the decline of industry in the United States and the emergence of the Information Age, the number of opportunit...