How did Americans in the bottom half of the income ladder fare in the 1990s?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
In the 1990s, the bottom 60 percent of the population saw their real income decline, even as the economy boomed.
The top 1 percent of Americans owned more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
Middle-class black families had fewer assets and resources, making their hold on middle-class status more precarious than that of their white peers.
The rate of unemployment was more than twice as high for blacks as for whites.
Recent immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America joined African Americans in jobs at the bottom of the economy.
Workers at the bottom of the labor force gained little or nothing from the economic boom of the 1990s.
History
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Bushido
What will be an ideal response?
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Since about 5000 B.C.E., though they never rode these, animal labor in the Andes was provided by domesticated
a. Horses. b. Camels. c. Pigs. d. Llamas and alpaca. e. Oxen and cattle.
History
How did the protestors in the Occupy Wall Street movement respond to the federal government’s bailout package for the financial sector?
What will be an ideal response?
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