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INCOME

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  • Wages and salaries from paid jobs

* Any unearned money from investments

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SOCIAL CLASS

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A large group of people who occupy a similar economic position in the wider society (wealth, power, prestige)

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WEALTH

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All assets which individuals own

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Herbert J. Gans
Uses of the Underclass in America
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Poverty is good for you, as long as you are not among the poor

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Microsocial Funtions of the Undeserving Poor (2)

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Risk Reduction

Scapegoating & Displacement

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Economic Functions of the Undeserving Poor (3)

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Economic Banishment and the reserve army of labor
Supplying Illegal Goods
Job Creation

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Normative Functions of the Undeserving Poor (3)

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Moral Legitimation
Norm Reinforcement
Supplying Popular Culture Villains

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Political Functions of the Undeserving Poor (3)

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Institutional Scapegoating
Conservative Power Shifting
Spatial Purification

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Macrosocial Functions of the Undeserving Poor (2)

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Reproduction of stigma and the stigmatized

Extermination of the surplus

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ABSOLUTE POVERTY

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Minimum income level below which individuals or families find it difficult to subsist

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RELATIVE POVERTY

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Inadequate income compared to average standard of living of the entire population

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PERCENTAGE of population IN POVERTY

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Approx. 15%

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POVERTY THRESHOLD

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  • An income equal to 3X the cost of a minimum pod diet in 1963
  • Adjusted for family size, composition, and age of householder
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FAMILY

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Persons living together who are related by blood, adoption, or marriage

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THE WORKING POOR

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  • People who work, but whose earning are not high enough to lift them above poverty
  • About 25% of those in poverty
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FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE

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$7.25/hr

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STATE MINIMUM WAGE

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Varies

Can override federal wage

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POVERTY IN INNER CITIES…

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Boils down to CULTURAL factors

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WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON

The Economic Plight of Inner City Black Males

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Employers are less inclined to hire black males because of discrimination bias that is further made worse with the possession of a criminal record

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