This paper discusses the impact of growing joblessness and dwindling workopportunities on inner-city areas in America. The lack of low-skilled manualwork in the inner city is linked to poverty, crime, family dissolution and thesocial life of neighbourhoods. The paper discusses this impact at...

At the end of 2008, the Government set in motion a Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England chaired by Sir Michael Marmot. It is to report in December 2009. As part of its work, it set up various Task Groups to collect evidence and suggest policy options. The Task Group on Social...

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is oneaspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent anddistribution of social capital as both a measure of a good society and as meansto upward mobility also emphasise the importance of social...