Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: The Evolution of Poverty and Antipoverty Policy -- I Trends and Determinants of Poverty, Inequality, and Mobility -- 1 The Level, Trend, and Composition of Poverty -- 2 Changes in Family Structure: Implications for Poverty and Related Policy -- 3 The Rising Tide Lifts ...? -- 4 Mobility, Persistence, and the Consequences of Poverty for Children: Child and Adult Outcomes -- 5 U.S. Poverty in a Cross-national Context -- II The Evolution of Antipoverty Policies -- 6 The Evolution of Income Support Policy in Recent Decades -- 7 Welfare Policy in Transition: Redefining the Social Contract for Poor Citizen Families with Children and for Immigrants -- 8 Health Policies for the Non-elderly Poor -- 9 Investing in the Future: Reducing Poverty Through Human Capital Investments -- III Neighborhoods, Groups, and Communities -- 10 Housing Discrimination and Residential Segregation as Causes of Poverty -- 11 The Memberships Theory of Poverty: The Role of Group Affiliations in Determining Socioeconomic Outcomes -- 12 Community Revitalization, Jobs and the Well-being of the Inner-City Poor -- IV Concluding Thoughts -- 13 Politics, Race, and Poverty Research -- 14 Poverty Research and Antipoverty Policy After the Technological Revolution -- 15 Research on Poverty and Antipoverty Policies -- Notes -- References -- Index