The income gap between low-income families and high-income families is widened. ... In 18 states high-income families got richer while the poor got poorer. In 31 states the incomes of high-income families grew faster than the incomes of low-income families. ... California is one of the nine states where the average income of the richest fifth of families was more than eleven times as great as the average income of the bottom fifth of families, and California is also ranked as the second best performing state in the new economy among 50 states. ... Increased U.S. imports have contributed to th...

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Republican campaigns during the 1980's focused on patriotism, and concern for oppresses minorities, and family values. ... By the end of the 1980's the difference between the incomes of average black family and the average white family was larger than it had been during the 1960's. "In 1987 the income of the typical black family, at $18,098 equaled just 56.1 percent of the typical white family's income, the lowest comparative percentage since the 1960's." ...

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The working-class school, the lowest class, takes up about 38.6 percent of U.S. families. In this class parents have an average income of about twelve thousand dollars or less. ... There average income somewhere between thirteen and twenty-five thousand. ... This class consists of 7 percent of the U.S. population, where the parents have an average income of forty to eighty thousand dollars. ... Majority of families belong to capitalist class. ...

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Mike Rose was raised in a family of blue-collars, or working class people. ... Rose grew up watching his mother wait tables, and learned early on that the average Joe and blue-collar worker carried an important set of skills. Those skills may not have been ones that you would achieve at an Ivy League college, but they were necessary to fulfill the average job and proved to be more difficult than one would assume. ... Uncle Joe can be described as your perfect blue-collar, average Joe. ... The stories of his mother and uncle are great examples of average blue-collars who lack titles and degr...

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The average woman had no political influence she was dependant on her husband for nearly everything she needed or wanted to do. ... Marriage and the family were important to the success of a woman. ... While the men were at a paid job the women stayed home to care for the family. ... Nineteenth-century middle-class moralists placed the family upon a podium to illustrate a healthy society. ... (Duiker pg 494) The middle-class families shaped a lot of what we see todayh as current family values. ...

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As a child, I grew up in an average middle class family where I was denied plenty of things because of expense but never knew the hardships of poverty. ... My family, hope and love for them was my treasure and the values I have learned from them. ... Maybe its because you have never had money and are looking for it and finally its because you have always had an average life and think money is going to make it extraordinary. ...

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A study done by the Carnegie Foundation in 1979 found social status largely determined by family background, as opposed to someone's intelligence. ... The upper class now earns 8 times more money than the average household, and 55 times more than a poor household. ...

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Manchester's working conditions contrasts to Costa Rica's meaning that workers from Manchester would be exploited and would work an average of 17 hours a day for 6 days a week; opposite to Manchester, Costa Ricans work an average of nine-ten hours a day for six days a week, but in Costa Rica workers get paid extra hours unlike in Manchester workers wouldn't get paid for those extra hours. ... There are many houses in the central valley in San Jose, most of these houses are decent, but some are not, some are clean and owned by hard working people, these houses usually have 2-3 r...

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Children who are born into wealthy families are more likely than children born into poverty to enjoy good health, find academic success, succeed in employment and enjoy a long life. ... The landmark Coleman Study (1966) found that the single most important factor in determining educational attainment is the family environment. ... A median family in the U.S. earns $44,467 per year. ... Average income for an African American is 62% of what a white person's income is. ...

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The family desperately desires higher wages and true freedom. ... When the family finally makes it to America, their funds are very low. ... Jokubas takes the family to the meatpacking factory. ... The family finds an advertisement for a housing complex that is very cheap. ... A Socialistic style government would average the monopoly of power between the two classes. ...

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An average low upper class citizens such as doctors, lawyer, and successful small business own would make up to $100,000 - $250,000 per year. ... This leave larger amount of middle class man struggling to pay back school loans and support their family with the high amount of taxes they have to pay. ... Average of 79% - 85% of women/ teenage girls get pregnant a year, 1.7% of women/ girls get an abortion knowing they are not financially able or financially able to take care of their unborn baby. ...

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The story is about a man named Jurgis and his family coming to America. ... Jurgis and his family took a tour of Packingtown. ... But, misfortune falls upon the family again. ... The rest of the family is stricken with numerous illnesses. ... History has always stated the deplorable conditions of the average worker at the turn of the century. ...

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For one thing, the average Victorian was much more likely to defer to the opinions of his "elders and betters" than to question them or think out his own, which is to say that the tradition of respect for the upper classes survived for a long time. ... Faced with such expectations, the average man was glad to take his ideas from the periodical. ... To be bored was the privilege of wives and daughters in upper and middle class families in which feminine idleness was treasured as a status symbol. ... A governess could expect no security of employment, only minimal wages and an ambiguous status...

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The upper class is the very wealthy, the middle class is the average of the society, and the lower class is the poorer people of the society. ... In the capitalist class there is a strong sense of family. Their family history is important. ... That is another way money stays in the family. ...

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The average weekly salary for men in 1928 was $10.40, whereas the women's was $8.80. ... Thus the new idea of hire purchase and the lowering of prices made it possible for the not-so-rich families to afford these new household accessories. ...

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Based on my knowledge and information about Democrats and Republicans, I feel that I am more affiliated with Democrats. I feel that Democrats are more for the average, everyday person. They are not just targeted on making the world a rich place. They want to reach out to everyone, even the people...

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They give up time spent with their families just to serve others food, clean their offices and even their houses. ... For instance, some people are born into poor families and their parents can not afford to send them to college to further their education. ... College graduates, on average, make near $40,000 a year after their first year out of college. ...

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According to economist James Galbraith, the low minimum wage is not good for the families. ... They will have more income to support their families. ... According to United States Department of Labor, a raise in the minimum wage does not affect the average income per person in the U.S in a bad way. ... With a raise in the minimum wage, many families can better support their children economically. ... I mean, why not raise the minimum wage and be helpful to students, families, economy and working class? ...

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The average work day was 12 to 15 hours per day, and the work week was six, and sometimes even seven days a week. ... These families did not know what they were getting themselves into. ... Trying to feed families became a very big burden at the time. ... Women and Children were even forced to go to work in order to keep up with the family burdens. Most families during this time also faced the consequence of having to live in 1 room apartments, and having to share houses with many families. ...

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They also like having their own family contrary to whatever Marx says about have one big universal family because the only point of a family is for reproduction. ... One of the main problems that defies human nature is that someone will always want to be the ruler or leader and in this case, the government would take all the average non-aristocratic people's money and become very rich and form the two classes of a communist society. ...

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She is described as "one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, born into a family of clerks". ... Throughout the story of "The Necklace" Mathilde Loisel's discontent with her average life is evident. ...

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Continuing to work at at different paces during the 1990's it was found that "In 1996 the number of persons holding two or more jobs averaged 7.8 million" (31). Many people at that time and even today have more than one job because one low wage job can not sustain one whole family. ...

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Charon states that the fundamental reasons why societies are unequal are the division of labor, social conflict, institution of private property and ability to accumulate wealth, and power, prestige, and privilege (Charon 69). Jonathon Kozol in his article "Savage Inequalities" describes the societi...

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