Sociology Now, Census Update
housing, and some are homeless. They have inadequate education, inadequate nutrition, and no health care. They have no possibili ...
Economist Michael Lind (2004) argues that the middle class has always been a product of social engineering by the government. To ...
Income Inequality At the same time that most people believe that they are middle class and believe that the system works for the ...
34 percent of the nation’s wealth (up a few percentage points since 1990), and the bottom 10 percent virtually none (Economic Po ...
slaves were unlikely to rise very much in the class hierarchy—even over several gen- erations. Race and class tend to covary—bei ...
decided that poverty meant “insufficient income to provide the food, shelter, and clothing needed to preserve health.” Minimal r ...
children can attend a public, four-year college or university). The “dream line” comes out to $46,509—and that estimate is low, ...
■Mothers are more likely than others to be poor. The poverty rate among female-headed households is more than double that of mar ...
Explaining Poverty Why are poor people poor? Is it because they are born into poverty, or because they don’t work hard enough to ...
in poverty are not necessarily resigned to their situation, they face structural disadvantages that are nearly impossible to ove ...
25 percent of the world’s nations—is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest peoplecombined (Shah, 2007). And yet the ...
between too little food to feed the family and just barely enough. CCTS are “conditional”: In return the benefici- aries must ha ...
wealthier. Because of the post–World War II economic boom, many working-class families found themselves enjoying middle-class in ...
Another way to move down from the middle class is to become a permanent temp or part-time worker. Employers prefer temporary emp ...
67 percent of the income of White households, and in 2000 they earned 66 percent (Featherman and Hauser, 1978; Pomer, 1983; U.S. ...
Globalization has increased the economic, political, and social interconnectedness of the world. It has also resulted in both un ...
produce about as much as they need to survive, barring droughts, pestilence, and flood—industrial work is associated with a high ...
have, the poorer you are. Furthermore, an expanding population limits the opportunities for economic improvement. ■Distribution ...
Explaining Global Inequality For many years, sociologists weren’t worried about the causes of global inequality as much as its c ...
and IRAs because they are so eager to consume or that their path to economic solvency lies in abandoning their traditional lazin ...
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