How Successful are CDCs? An Interim Response

Vietorisz Thomas , and Harrison Bennett , “Ghetto Development, Community Corporations, and Public Policy” in Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 11, No. 1, (Fall 1971), p. 31.

Sturdivant Frederick, D. , “Community Development Corporations: The Problem of Mixed Objectives”, in Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1 (Winter 1971), pp. 48–49.

Hetherington J.A.C. , “Community Participation: A Critical View”, Law and Contemporary Problems, p. 28.

Abt Associates, Inc., “An Evaluation of the Special Impact Program: Phase II Report”, Cambridge, Mass., March 1973, Contract No. B 00-5181.

Corporation Income Tax Returns: 1968, Internal Revenue Service, U.S.-G.P.O., Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 14, column 1.

Corporation Income Tax Returns: 1968, Internal Revenue Service, U.S.-G.P.O., Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 14, column 1.

Hollander Edward, D. and others, The Future of Small Business, (N.Y. Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), pp. 106–107.

McClory Robert , “Rough Times in Minority Business”, Race Relations Reporter, Nashville, Tenn., Vol. IV, No. 8, April 23, 1973, p. 6.

Thomas Vietorisz and Bennett Harrison, The Economic Development of Harlem, (N.Y. Praeger, 1970), p. 22.

Steadily increasing data support the idea that the U.S. economy operates in a dualistic fashion, especially perhaps with regard to labor. That is, there is a secondary labor market characterized by very different structure and opportunities, which limit the kinds of work available, its continuity, and its rates of pay. Particularly in such depressed areas as those in which the CDCs operate, this secondary labor market is the one which most clearly accounts for the inability of local workers to find decent employment. See, for example, Piore Michael J. , “The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications”, in Gordon David , ed., Problems in Political Economy: An Urban Perspective, (Lexington, Mass., D.C. Heath, 1971).

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. for 1972, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1971, Table No. 519.

Stein Barry A. , Harlem Commonwealth Council: A Case Study in Community Business Development, Cambridge, Mass., Center for Community Economic Development, Forthcoming 1973.

Stein Barry A. , The Biggest Little Conglomerate in the World: Community Economic Development in Kentucky, Cambridge, Mass., Center for Community Economic Development, In press.

Stein Barry A. , “Abt Evaluation Study”, Center for Community Economic Development Newsletter, Cambridge, Mass., March 1973, p. 3.

That is, adjusted to reflect the different size of the sample in the separate CDCs. The figures so calculated more accurately represent the feeling of the total population surveyed.