Hidden Unemployment

This timely and important work addresses the controversy surrounding discouragement among the unemployed. Using an unprecedented set of national and local studies, and drawing on disparate research in nearly every social science discipline, the authors produce an original, highly detailed portrait of discouraged workers. From their analysis they offer recommendations on what can be done to promote employment and reduce long-term dependency on government assistance. Other timely issues discussed are chronic minority unemployment, worker dislocation through plant closings, the impact of low wage jobs on reducing poverty, the feminization of poverty, the plight of the working poor, and the importance of the family.

TERRY F. BUSS is professor of urban studies and senior research associate at the Center for Urban Studies, The University of Akron. His latest books coauthored with Roger J. Vaughan and published by the Council of State Planning Agencies, include: On the Rebound: Developing a Human Service Response to Plant Closings (1988), A State Strategy for Preventing and Treating Rural Poverty (1988), Picking Up the Pieces: Economic Recovery After a Plant Closin (1988). He is now working on a book about the the working poor and welfare poor.

F. STEVENS REDBURN is an Economist with the United States Office of Management and Budget. He is the co-author, with Terry Buss, of Responding to America's Homeless (Praeger, 1987) and Revitalizing the U.S. Economy (Praeger, 1987). He is currently working on banking and housing issues.