In terms of employment, what is the difference between affluent teens and working class teens?
a. Affluent teens are more likely to be employed because they have access to transportation.
b. Affluent teens are more likely to be employed because their parents share the value of hard work.
c. Working class teens are more likely to be employed because their families depend on their wages.
d.
Working class teens are more likely to be employed because they can walk to work.
a
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a. Program Directors hiring an evaluator at the end of the program b. Evaluators asking for a copy of the program plan c. Findings that the plan did not have measurable objectives d. Program Directors should be required to be involved in the evaluation process
Which of these statements regarding Marx's analysis of class differences is false?
a. All aspects of capitalistic societies are economically based. b. Prestige is the prime determinant of social stratification. c. Because they own the means of production, capitalists will rule and exploit the working class. d. Capitalists control all social institutions, which they use to their own advantage. e. There were more than two social classes in nineteenth-century industrial society.
The minimum wage in the US is set so that a single parent of two children who works full time at a minimum-wage job will have an income above the poverty index
a. true b. false
Based on the text, why has inequality grown in recent decades?
A. Union power has been reduced in negotiating wages. B. increase in manufacturing jobs in lower paying states C. reduction in stores and restaurants in urban areas D. increase in service jobs and wages