ABSTRACT
The economic and social costs of the present policies choice will far surpass the cost of the alternatives. The rising concentration of impoverished Negroes and other minorities within the urban ghettos will constantly expand public expenditures for welfare, law enforcement, unemployment, and other existing programs without arresting the decay of older city neighborhoods and the breeding of frustration and discontent. The premise of the enrichment choice is performance. To adopt this choice would require a substantially greater share of national resources—sufficient to make a dramatic, visible impact on life in the urban Negro ghetto. The integration choice—like the enrichment choice—would call for large-scale improvement in the quality of ghetto life. Effective enrichment policies probably would have several immediate effects on civil disorders. If the enrichment choice were adopted, it could certainly attain the objective to a far greater degree than would the present policies choice.
