This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …

. This paper reviewsthe long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make asignificant impact on poverty and …