Poverty Amid Affluence

USA. Conference papers on the paradox of poverty in an affluent society - definition and historical aspects, characteristics of poor families, psychological aspects, and sociological aspects of poverty, special problems of children and Blacks, percentage of whites and non whites in the occupational structure, case study of appalachia, the relationship between unemployment and poverty, government policies. Statistical tables. Conference held in morgantown 1965 may.

USA. Social research into poverty - changes in workers, family budgets, estimates of the number of poor, standards of adequacy, income distribution, characteristics of the poor, poverty among Blacks, school leavers and rural workers, living conditions and health of the poor, relation between poverty and unemployment, financing of assistance. References as footnotes. Statistical tables.

"This book has been quite some time in the making. Across a number of years I have researched, taught, and written about poverty. In my opinion, there are few topics of greater importance. It is a dominant and disturbing feature of the American landscape. Yet despite the hundreds of books, articles, reports, and programs addressing the issue, the United States continues to have the highest rates of poverty among the wealthy countries"--

The two leading sociologists of social stratification in Japan argue that most Japanese have attained a level of income in which they no longer suffer from poverty and starvation, a situation in which Japan has achieved an equalization of basic wealth.