Discuss how poverty is measured, how this measure was created, how many are poor, and which age, racial/ethnic, and family types are most likely to be poor and why they are vulnerable.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Mollie Orshansky and the Department of Agriculture, 1965
2. Minimum food budget multiplied by three
3. 41 million, 12.7 percent
4. Children, blacks, mother-headed households
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A) Intergenerational mobility B) Structural mobility C) Paternal mobility D) Intragenerational mobility
___________ A theory of aging that emphasizes the importance of the elderly gradually disengaging from their roles in society
What will be an ideal response?
Currently, for most people, robots are a curiosity. But we may be at the point where they will suddenly become commonplace. That point is
a. social change c. a tipping point b. a scientific revolution d. global interdependence
Normals staring at a stigmatized person qualifies as an invasion of privacy
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false