* denotes readings new to this edition.Preface. Introduction: Approaches to Social Problems. SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS. I. CORPORATE POWER. 1. Janice Shields, Getting Corporations off the Public Dole. 2. Mark Green, The Cost of Money.* 3. Philip J. Hilts, Smoke Screen. 4. John Luoma, Water for Profit.* II. ECONOMIC CRISIS. 5. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. 6. Thomas O. Padgett, Testimony of Mr. Thomas O. Padgett* 7. Jerry Useem, Have they No Shame?* 8. Robert Kuttner, The Limits of Markets. III. INEQUALITY. 9. Edward N. Wolff, Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth. 10. Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding, Doing Poorly: The Real Income of American Children in Comparative Perspective. 11. Elliot Liebow, Day by Day: The Lives of Homeless Women. 12. Herbert J. Gans, The Underclass Label. IV. RACISM. 13. Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid. 14. Jeffrey Goldberg, The Color of Suspicion. 15. Daniel Golden, At Many Colleges, the Rich Kids Get Affirmative Action.* 16. Ronald Takaki, Asian Americans: The Myth of the Model Minority. V. SEXISM. 17. James Ptacek, The Tactics and Strategies of Men Who Batter. 18. Peggy Orenstein, Learning Silence. 19. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domestica.* INSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS. VI. THE FAMILY. 20. Lillian B. Rubin, Families on the Fault Line. 21. Brittany Shahmehri, More than Welcome: Families Come First in Sweden.* 22. Elijah Anderson, Decent and Street Families. VII. THE ENVIRONMENT. 23. Barry Commoner, Why We Have Failed. 24. Robert D. Bullard, Environmental Racism. 25. Ross Gelbspan, The Heat is On. VIII. WORK AND WELFARE. 26. Richard B. Freeman, How Labor Fares in Advanced Economies. 27. William Julius Wilson, The Political Economy and Urban Racial Tensions. 28. Rosemary L. Bray, So How Did I Get Here? Growing Up on Welfare. IX. HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE. 29. Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong with Claudia Fegan, M.D., Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience. 30. Eric Bates, The Shame of Our Nursing Homes. 31. Laurie Garret, The Return of Infectious Disease. 32. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Cater to the Children.* X. THE SCHOOLS. 33. Michael Johnston, In the Deep Heart's Core.* 34. Ellen Mutari and Melaku Lakew, Class Conflict: The Rising Costs of College.* 35. Consumer Reports, Reading, Writing, and...Buying? XI. CRIME AND JUSTICE. 36. Elliot Currie, The Myth of Leniency. 37. Jerome H. Skolnick and John J. DiIulio Jr., Wild Pitch: "Three Strikes You're Out" and Other Bad Calls on Crime. 38. Philippe Bourgois, Workaday World, Crack Economy. 39. Ken Silverstein, Unjust Rewards.* XII. AMERICA IN THE WORLD. 40. Moises Naim, Five Wars We're Losing.* 41. Chalmers Johnson, Blowback.* 42. Michael T. Klare, Oil, Geography and War.* 43. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Its Seven Minutes to Midnight.*