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Presents a partitioning algorithm for the study of the income dynamics of the poor. Socioeconomic characteristics; Income mobility; Personality variables and attitudes.

The article discusses about inflation and taxation in relation to low-income groups. In spite of the great current need for more federal revenues and for measures to reduce inflationary pressures, and in spite of the insistence of many pressure groups and some highly respected economists' that taxes on the lower income groups be increased substantially, an excellent case can actually be made for exempting these groups from the increases voted in the Revenue Acts of 1950 and 1951. Besides facing objection on the grounds of its precipitating adverse revenue and inflationary effects, such a suggestion faces the additional criticism that the resulting further increase in the progressivity of the federal income tax would be an outright reform move unfairly undertaken during a period of national emergency. It is argued that further increases will destroy their incentives and hence throttle economic progress. Thus the case against tax increases, and specifically against greater progressivity in tax rates, is made primarily on economic, not ethical, grounds. The article also suggests some points for tax programs and represents it with the help of tables.

This article focuses on the trade-off strategy in community research. Most recently, some of the more sophisticated and highly organized low-income communities have developed a modus operandi with outside researchers. It is rooted in the very capitalistic system in which both the poor and the professional live. The human service professions have not been unresponsive to this emerging characteristic of low-income communities. Professional service programs involving low-income people as assistants to professionals and as links between the professional service and the recipients of these services are rapidly being developed. Traditionally, the researcher's approach to the community process has been objective, detached, silent-striving for invisibility. The researcher's model of work has been based on at least the following two values: maximizing the gathering of relevant data and minimizing the contamination of the processes being observed. The immediate objective of this strategy is to set up a symbiotic relationship between the two parties--researchers and the low-income community--which will result in mutual gain.