GOVT 2225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Earned Income Tax Credit, Working Poor
12 Jun 2016
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Some combination of people: living in persistent poverty, habitually unemployed, non-mainstream (non-middle class) cultural behaviors and moral values. Value: childbearing out of wedlock, violence & drug-use: spatially segregated. Neighborhoods that are geographically segregated: urban blacks or minorities. The usage of underclass can be a derogatory term that are defined by negative cultural stereotype. Often single-parent families: product of divorce or children born out of wedlock, typically fatherless families, unwed birth rates rising. Could be part of the underclass or working poor. Trends and changes in family structure: less marriage (also people are getting married older), more divorce, more cohabitation, smaller family size (# of children, less marital fertility, more non-marital fertility (wedlock) Increasing percentage of dual earning couples; significantly decreasing percentage of male breadwinning couples. Those who spent 27 weeks in the labor force but whose incomes still fell below the federal poverty line.
