Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 84: April, 1984 In the past five years the picture has changed dramatically. We know what's happening to the poor. Their ranks are swelling, and the economic pie has stopped growing. In fact, we are witnessing a time in which millions of offspring are caught in a poverty cycle in which poor children are fed through a school system which gradu ates them as illiterates. At the other end of the spectrum are the rich. In homes where there are two earners, a husband and wife, each a professional, it is not uncommon to see household incomes of more than So the ranks of the rich, like the ranks of the poor, are greatly expanding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.