Using Baby Boomers as your example, explain how demographers can use population pyramids to determine current and future needs of the society

What will be an ideal response?


The baby boomer block has been a bulge in the pyramid, working its way upward since the 1950s, allowing demographers to predict a need for more child-oriented facilities, then more colleges and universities, and now more facilities for elderly people.

Sociology

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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What is one thing that every stepfamily has in common?

A) They all come from lower to middle class situations. B) They have all experienced divorce. C) They have all faced loss. D) They have all faced domestic violence.

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A recent Pew study showed that in 2012, Latinos' higher education enrollment surpassed that of whites.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Sociology

Despite paying lip service to laissez-faire capitalism, the U.S. government actually _____ big business

a. greatly subsidizes b. completely ignores c. closely regulates d. overtaxes

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