SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Unemployment Benefits, Working Poor, Redlining

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Bellin

Document Summary

Relative poverty those who believe poverty is contextual, rely on relative poverty measurements. Based on some measure of median income in a location and cost of living. Living in poverty in mississippi is very different than in pa/de/nj. Circumstances of birth: geography, employment outcomes, race, age, the fastest demographic of people falling into poverty. Are the elderly women outlive men and they lose most of the social support income: economic forces, luck. Societal/structural causes: societal trends in poverty are well understood, developed countries: Political power: developing countries: poverty traps people lack the ability to get out. Which cause of poverty has the biggest impact on poverty rates structural. Structural forces have stronger effects than individual forces. Address specific needs of those in poverty. Also school lunch programs, wic program, housing developments or vouchers for the working poor. About to 1/3 of the aid to the poor. Benefits in cash to increase the incomes of those in poverty.