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1. The richest 20 percent of U.S. families earn almost as much as?
2. Families in the top 10 percent of income earn at least?
3. social stratification
4. The richest 20 percent of the U.S. population controls what percentage of all privately-owned wealth?
5. wealth
6. income
7. According to the U.S. government, the 2014 median family income was?
8. The lowest paid 20 percent of U.S. families receive about what percentage of all income in the country?
9. *Since about 1980, income inequality among U.S. families has been what?
10. In 2013, the average compensation of the 100 highest-paid chief executive officers (CEOs) in the United States was?
11. *example of a tax that is regressive rather than progressive
12. poverty line
13. In 2014, about what percentage of the U.S. population lived in a household with income below the poverty line?
14. In 2014, the poverty line for a non-farm family of four was?
15. *In 2014, how many people in America were counted as poor by the federal government?
16. Most people in the United States who live below the poverty line are what?
17. In 2014, what percentage of children under the age of eighteen lived in poor households?
18. feminization of poverty
19. a region of the United States with a very high poverty rate
20. *working poor
21. *hypersegregation
22. infant mortality
23. Experts estimate that about how many people in the United States are homeless at some point during a year?
24. In explaining the problem of homelessness, conservatives point to what?
25. In approaching the problem of homelessness, liberals point to what?
26. tracking
27. *In the 2012 presidential election, what percent of people earning $100,000 or more voted? Among those earning less than $40,000, what percentage of people voted?
28. *In the United States, social welfare programs that provide government assistance of one type or another benefit who?
29. Social Security
30. In 1960, just before President Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty, the national poverty rate stood at about what percent?
31. *Poverty rate in the early 1970s
32. anthropologist Oscar Lewis, the culture of poverty
33. *A result of the 1996 federal welfare reform
34. During the 1920s and 1930s, sociologists at the University of Chicago, the social disorganization thesis
35. *Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
36. *Herbert Gans
37. William Ryan's "blaming the victim" thesis
38. If you wanted to study poverty in terms of race and ethnicity, you would probably use what theory?
39. intersection theory
40. *cultural capital
41. *Fraction of poor families was headed by a woman
42. Karl Marx, internal contradiction
43. *If you were to support a conservative solution to the problem of poverty in the United States, you would focus on what?
44. If you take a liberal point of view, poverty is mostly a problem that what?
45. A person who claims that government welfare assistance creates dependency is probably what?
46. As of 2013, the typical "welfare family" received about how much assistance each month?
47. *If you take a radical-left point of view, you see the main cause of poverty as what?
48. Radicals on the left agree with liberals that poverty is what?
49. A radical left solution to the problem of poverty would be what?
50. According to which political position does the solution to poverty lie in government reforms, such as increasing the minimum wage and raising tax rates on the wealthy?
51. *agrarian societies
52. hunting and gathering societies
53. industrial societies
54. late-modern societies
55. *Over the last 50 years, which percentile in household income saw the greatest rise?
56. *In the US, from 1947 to 1973, income gain
57. *From 2009 to 2011, net worth increase
58. *indirect method of exercising power
59. *From 2003 to 2011 in Minnesota, real per pupil revenue
60. *Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson
61. transitional poverty
62. marginal poverty
63. *residual poverty
64. relative poverty
65. *government benefits in reducing poverty