#  The Truly Disadvantaged After 25 Years 

 



  
Revisiting a groundbreaking book with its author,  
William Julius Wilson

**A Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy event**  
September 14, 2012, at Harvard University.

- [View the poster (agenda).](/file_url/312)
- [Read coverage in the *Harvard Gazette*.](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/09/poverty-in-america-2012/)



 

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**ORGANIZED BY**

[Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener)

**HARVARD CO-SPONSORS**

[Jobless and Urban Poverty Research Program](http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/urbanpoverty/)

[Harvard Department of African and African American Studies](http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu)  
[](http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu)

[Harvard Department of Sociology](http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu)  
[](http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/dubois)

[W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute](http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/dubois)



 

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