The Cage of Poverty

2000, 218 pp.

BY: MARK DRAYSE, DANIEL FLAMING, AND PETER FORCE, ECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE

Chapter Headings:

• Executive Summary and Recommendations
• Introduction
• Industry Restructuring, Migration and the Working Poor in Los Angeles
• The End of Welfare as We Know It
• Paths out of Poverty
• Finding Work and Earning a Living Wage
• Job Retention and Turnover
• Unstable Jobs: Welfare Workers in Precarious Labor Markets
• Diffusion of Workers Throughout the Economy
• Industry Mobility of Welfare Workers
• Industry Niches of Welfare Workers
• Local Labor Markets, Neighborhood Poverty and the Employment of Welfare Workers
• Conclusions
• Comments by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and Economic Roundtable Responses
• Data Appendix
• Index