CAS SO 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Barbara Ehrenreich, African-American Culture, Negative Income Tax
27 Nov 2017
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Why are the poor, poor? are severe enough to impact life. The argument that poor people adopt certain practices that differ from those of the middle-class, Mainstream society in order to adapt and survive in difficult economic circumstances. Assumes that poor won"t continue to work when aided. If anything, studies have shown that they use free time to. The bell curve thesis: improve/invest in children. Need resources to improve life and children"s lives. Start with low resources and because of social institutions you remain without resources to pull yourself out of poverty cycle. Absolute poverty : official poverty line in us is calculated on a formula developed in the 1960"s to determine the point at which a household"s income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to physically sustain its members. Problematic bc only takes into account food. Different areas have differents costs of living. Relative poverty : a measurement of poverty based on a percentage of.
