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Warm Up: How do you know when someone is poor?

Warm Up: How do you know when someone is poor?. Wednesday, 4/9. Objective:. I will be able to describe the extent of poverty in the U.S. Language Objective: I will be able to use words such as impact; conclude, and percentage in a paragraph. Social Class Review.

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Warm Up: How do you know when someone is poor?

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  1. Warm Up: How do you know when someone is poor? Wednesday, 4/9

  2. Objective: • I will be able to describe the extent of poverty in the U.S. Language Objective: • I will be able to use words such as impact; conclude, and percentage in a paragraph.

  3. Social Class Review • Upper Class (1% of people; live exclusive lives) • Middle Class (roughly 40% of people) • Upper middle class • Middle middle class • Lower middle class (aka Working Class) • Unstable jobs • Lack health care and retirement benefits • Working Poor (13% of people) • Fast food workers; • Remain below the poverty line • Underclass (12% of people) • Family history of unemployment (generational poverty) • Commonly have mental or physical disabilities

  4. Poverty • Absolute poverty – the absence of enough money to secure life’s necessities. • Relative poverty – economic disparity between the haves and have nots. • Measured by income (see chart on last slide). • 16% of people in 2012 lived below the poverty line. • Poverty Rate – percentage of people in a group that are poor.

  5. Response to Poverty • War on Poverty • President Lyndon Johnson • Designed to help poor people help themselves. • Somewhat successful • Welfare Reform • 1996 – limits on the amount of time those who can work can be on welfare. • Many people off welfare are now part of the working poor.

  6. Social Mobility • The ability to move between social classes. • Horizontal – changing from one occupation to another. • Vertical – moving upward or downward. • Intergenerational - a change in status from one generation to the next.

  7. Rags to Riches Tradition • Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, Bill Gates: exceptions or norm? • Is upward mobility increasing? • Explosion after World War II due to high-paying manufacturing jobs. • Trend of moving jobs overseas to low-paying countries has slowed the growth. • Jobs are returning, but US workers lack training.

  8. Costs of Downward Mobility • Lowered self-esteem • Despair • Depression • Feelings of powerlessness • Loss of sense of honor If your self-worth is measured by your occupation, what happens when you are downwardly mobile?

  9. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender • What connections can you make based on these graphs? • Write a paragraph use words such as impact; conclude, and percentage in a paragraph.

  10. PreSocratic Seminar Form • You will need this completed form to participate in Wednesday’s activity.

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