List three characteristics of those people who earn minimum wage, according to your text
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.
1. About 2.6 million hourly workers earned the minimum wage or even less.
2. Half of these persons were age 25 or older.
3. These low-wage workers are distributed evenly across racial and ethnic groups (except for Asians, who are more likely to have higher wages).
4. Women are more likely to earn minimum wage or less than are men.
5. It is likely that many of these women are supporting children as well as themselves.
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R.W. Connell has analyzed how dramatic inequalities in the distribution of power in societies often deprive women of opportunities to realize their full potential. Connell's work shows that ________
a. in much of the industrialized world men still have much greater access to cultural prestige, political authority, corporate power, individual wealth, and material comforts than women b. individual men and small groups of men are generally confident and comfortable with the inequalities that surround them c. today, male-female relations are structured so that men and women are equal d. intersexed individuals are still jailed in several states
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a. White supremacy b. White privilege c. Color-blind racism d. The frustration-aggression hypothesis
According to data from the Census Bureau, there has been a modest decrease in the number of childless married couples in the U.S.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)