A contextual definition of the underclass
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Assessing whether or not an underclass exists, how it came to be, and what policies are likely to affect it all turn on how the term "underclass" is defined. The underclass has been variously defined by any or all of four characteristics: chronic poverty; nonnormative behavior with respect to income generation and family formation; spatial concentration of such poverty and/or behavior; and intergenerational transmission of such poverty and/or behavior.? The manner in which the underclass is defined will affect research findings and policy prescriptions. A useful definition should at a minimum distinguish the underclass from the poverty population in general and establish the manner in which this group is a class-a category of persons with structurally similar socioeconomic positions.
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