SOC 302 Test #2
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-Decline in unions -Decline in manufacturing jobs -Growth in low wage (minimum wage) service sector.
De-industrialization has caused what?
-Economic growth & productivity (especially strong until early 1970's)—see video by Robert Reich on "The Great Prosperity" -Organized political action (voting, unions, social movements)
Why the big decline of poverty between 1960 and 1973?
$26,246 or $5.99 /person/day for food
Poverty line (or threshold) in 2020 for 4-person, two child family=
Poverty
U.S. government bases definition on "absolute deprivation." This is their operational definition.
