SOC-1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Preventive Healthcare, Congenital Disorder, Asthma
Document Summary
Today, economic struggles affects individuals and families from all walks of life - affects the poor most dramatically. Rising cost of groceries, housing, college tuition. Increasing numbers of full-time workers (50 wks per year) live below the poverty line. Many workers are working non-standard work hours or work 2 or more part-time jobs to compensate for reductions in work hours. Non-standard work hours refers to variable shifts. Impossible to survive on one minimum wage job. Debates over the minimum wage v. living wage continue. Poor people who live in areas with high concentrations of poverty. These areas have limited opportunities for education and work. Everyday life is characterized by persistent poverty (long term with little hope for improvement) Inner cities, as well as rural areas, characterized by hypersegregation - neighborhoods cut off from broader society that have no access to good schools or good paying jobs. Children grow up poor and remain poor as adults.
