How are age, race, ethnicity, and gender related to the risk of being poor? Provide data in support of your assertions
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• The age category at greatest risk of poverty is children, who make up 35 percent of the U.S. poor. In 2012, 16.1 million (22 percent) of people under eighteen were living in poor households.
• African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans are at higher risk of being poor than whites. While more white people than black people and Hispanic people are poor, the percentage of minority people who are poor is higher than that of whites. In 2012, 27.2 percent of African Americans (10.9 million people), 25.6 percent of Hispanics (13.6 million people), and 11.7 percent of Asian Americans (1.9 million people) were poor, compared to 9.7 percent of non-Hispanic whites (18.9 million people).
• Fifty-seven percent of all U.S. adults who are poor are women, and 43 percent are men. The "feminization of poverty" refers to the trend of women making up an increasing percentage of the poor.
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A) Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism B) Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism C) Islam, Christianity, and Judaism D) Catholicism, Christianity, and Protestantism
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A) they have less longevity B) it is the norm for men to marry younger women C) after being married once, they hate men D) their husbands file for divorce
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The transmission of culture from one person or generation to the next is dependent upon:
a. a large brain. b. natural human instincts. c. the human capacity for creating and using technology. d. the human capacity for language.