SLWK 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income
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Personal and social values play a major part in deciding who is poor. Hard to set a dollar value on being poor. Absolute: uses a dollar value that is firmly set. Relative: uses comparisons to determine who is poor and who is not. The federal government uses a poverty threshold to determine who is poor. Controversy over the poverty threshold (poverty line). In 2009, 43. 6 million people (14. 3% of the population) were in poverty. One in five children spends time living in poverty. Women earn less than men; in 2009 women earned 77% of what men. Numerous theories about the causes of poverty. did. Culture of poverty: people learn to be poor from growing up in poor areas. Poverty plays an important role in the economic structure and their is little incentive to get rid of it. Poverty is often seen as the fault of the individual. Just having a job does not guarantee immunity from poverty.
