SYG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Herbert J. Gans, Liberal Feminism, Infant Mortality
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Which term refers to the trend by which women represent an increasing share of the u. s. poor? feminization of poverty. The term infant mortality refers to the risk of death during the first year of life. In 2012, the poverty line for a non-farm family of four was. In 2012, the average compensation of the 100 highest-paid chief executive officers (ceos) in the. Jonas lives in a region of the united states with a very high poverty rate. He probably lives in the southwest, near the mexican border. Most people in the united states who live below the poverty line are white. Overall, the result of the 1996 federal welfare reform has been to decrease the number of people receiving welfare but with little change to the number of poor people. In 1960, one in four poor families was headed by a woman. By 2010, this share had changed to half.
