HIST 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Nancy Reagan, Unearned Income, Mujahideen

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There was a massive deregulation of mandates for federal programs. There was a recession in 1982 but there were short periods of recovery. There were long term problems to this theory: the growing wage gap. There was a celebration of wealth, money making and entrepreneurship. The (cid:373)o(cid:448)ie (cid:862)wolf o(cid:374) wall treet(cid:863) e(cid:373)phasizes this. Yuppie came out of this celebration: young urban person. In reality there was a growing gap between the rich and the poor: the ceo make 90 times what his worker made. The number of fully employed workers who made the poverty line increased by more than 50 % In 1922 33% of all african americans lived in poverty. The poor people and people of color were who they were targeting: mass incarceration started to become a big deal. It started with males and then later started with women: caused a long-term problem with uneven amounts of people being incarcerated.

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