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Professor of Sociology Marta Tienda, director of
the Office of Population Research, finds plenty of
food for thought in the relationships among
minority status, education, fertility, poverty and
unemployment.
Like many others, she has
found limitations in the data used to sort out
these links. But in her forthcoming book, "Color
and Opportunity: Welfare, Work and the Urban
Underclass," she tries to break through those
limits to show that when the effects of one's
background and place of residence are stripped
away, race matters. Color, or minority group
status, Tienda says, "limits economic opportunity
-- that is, chances to work and earn a living wage
-- more than can be attributed to declining
employment options." (Photo: Susan Geller)
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