LABR 2Q92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Human Capital, Working Poor, The New Tomorrow
3 Feb 2018
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Debates over social class: are social classes real, high-class, low-class, middle-class, is there more to what defines class, mannerisms. Stuck in the second tier labour market. Race, poverty, the mix of racialized poverty. Modern day is still dealing with over-arching topics in relation to poverty and the. Individuals having issues accessing and getting into the labour market. Interest in social classes as analysis or reality waned in recent years (crompton, 2008). Class boundaries are blurring and becoming less meaningful in everyday life. Children born into wealthy families are more likely than poor children to: Therefore, their affluence and privilege enriches, empowers, and energizes (putnam. Social costs of poverty: an incubator for a host of poorer outcomes, including health, literacy, crime, school attainment, aborted maturity, and increased family stress (silver, 2012). Canadians as a whole pay the price of poverty by way of: higher health costs, increased policing and criminal justice involvement, higher income supports but less tax revenue (ivanova, 2011).
