Based on papers presented at a continuing seminar of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on problems of race and poverty during the academic year 1966-67.

The professors and the poor / Daniel P. Moynihan -- Class, status, and poverty / Peter H. Rossi and Zahava D. Blum -- Poverty: changing social stratification / S.M. Miller and Pamela Roby -- Inheritance of poverty or inheritance of race? / Otis Dudley Duncan -- Deprivation and migration: dilemmas of causal interpretation / Marc Fried -- Poverty in historical perspective / Stephan Thernstrom -- The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis -- Culture and class in the study of poverty: an approach to anti-poverty research / Herbert J. Gans -- The problem of lower-class culture and poverty-war strategy / Lee Rainwater -- The elimination of the American lower class as a national policy: a critique of the ideology of the poverty movement of the 1960s / Walter Miller -- An economic definition of poverty / Harold Watts -- Identifying the poor: economic measures of poverty / Gerald Rosenthal -- Appendix: Social class research and images of the poor: a bibliographic review / Zahava D. Blum and Peter H. Rossi.