LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Inequality
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All around the sdsu campus there are homeless people making bunkers in the vents, students struggling to gain financial aid, and people digging through their pocket change just to get a bite of food this weekend. Poverty is persisting and the divide between the poor and the rich is growing. All throughout the country citizens are advocating for change, politicians are proposing plans, but the numbers are not changing. Within the united states, the rich are getting richer as the poor are getting poorer, and not many people are realizing just how difficult it is to switch social classes. Scholars are giving different opinions on how to decrease this gap, but no one is coming to a consensus. To understand how to prevent and decrease poverty, we must find understand what it is. Poverty is defined as the state of being extremely poor, or approximately any family of four earning a household income below ,000 in the u. s.
