SOC 2390 Lecture Notes - False Advertising, Infant Mortality, Working Poor

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The underclass: the underclass refers to those poor people who live in areas with high concentrations of poverty and few opportunities to improve their lives. These individuals suffer from extreme forms of segregation, resulting in a lack of good schooling and well-paying jobs: the underclass includes about one in seven poor people and only a small percentage of the country"s entire population. The middle class: beginning around 1970, many u. s. families found themselves working harder than ever, yet feeling that they were falling behind. For a large share of workers, earnings have stalled, forcing them to work longer hours to meet the rising costs of housing and college: underlying this pattern of stalled earnings are economic changes. Social problems linked to poverty: poor health - many poor people can not afford adequate nutrition; about 15% of poor families are undernourished. Poor families receive little medical care; at least one-third lack health insurance more than twice the national average.

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