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This is one reason why the "underclass," as measured by scholars such as William Julius Wilson, Isabel Sawhill, and Ron Mincy, has been a majority-black problem.
Unmaking the underclass would answer white fears while giving lower-class blacks a chance they are now largely denied: that of assimilating into the mainstream of an integrated society.
In Losing Ground (1984), the work that made him famous, he contended that government anti-poverty programs had done much to create the underclass.
What Murray likes about the idea is that it would finally discharge society's obligation to members of the underclass.
He was expected to use his position as head of the National Economic Council and later as treasury secretary to redirect federal resources toward inner cities and the underclass.