ABSTRACT
One of the most important arguments advanced in favor of promoting the movement of blacks to suburbia is that low-income people will have much better access to jobs if they live there than if they live in the central cities. The integration of black students into schools with white majorities seemed to make the greatest positive impact on their achievement. This study recommends government action to develop low-income housing, improve public transportation, and provide day-care centers, training and job development, service centers in poverty areas, neighborhood health centers, and an information and referral system. Thus the spatial separation between central-city blacks and suburban jobs, coupled with their lack of contact with other suburban workers, may prevent them from even learning about openings for which they are qualified. John Kain's analysis of the relationship between housing segregation and employment in Detroit and Chicago lends some empirical weight to this argument.
