POVERTY AND PROSPERITY: PROSPECTS FOR REDUCING RACIAL/ETHNIC ECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES Sheldon Danziger University of Michigan Deborah Reed Public Policy Institute of California Tony N. Brown Vanderbilt University August 25, 2001 Revised, June 10, 2002 An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference, “Racism and Public Policy,” sponsored by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and held in Durban, South Africa, September 3-5, 2001. Address correspondence to: Sheldon Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan, 540 E. Liberty St., Suite 202, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA; sheldond@umich.edu. Partial support for this research was provi ded by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Program on Poverty and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Yusuf Bangura, Ngina Chiteji, David Harris, Harry Holzer and Kenneth Lutterman provided helpful comments on a previous draft. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors alone.