SOCIOL 3AC Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Homeless Shelter, Same District, Intellectual Disability
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Does a 1 month experiment living as a poor person to show if people can get by living on minimum wage. Author explores the different schools in ny bronx district and chicago. He describes in detail the poor conditions of schoolsin low-income neighborhoods and the good quality of schools in high-income neighborhoods. Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in america. Experiment: spent 1 month living and working as a member of working poor (left her upper -middle class life) Finding a job = being at the right place at the right time. Strict manager who does nothing but give orders. Cooks and servers have no power over manager. Low-income people have not found a way/strategy to survive. Workers do what it takes to get by. Move closer to workplace to save gas money. Eliminated cash payments to poor reshaped cash and food w elfa re programs and helped reduce federal w elfa re spending.
