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In general, white-collar occupations have more prestige than blue-collar occupations.

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B) False

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Question 62

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One study found that about how many people in the United States were homeless for some time during 2005?

A) 10,000 or fewer
B) 154,000
C) 540,000, although the real number could be half this amount.
D) 754,000, although the real number could be several times higher.

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Because education is a right in the United States, there is very little inequality in schooling.

Hispanic families, on average, lag behind non-Hispanic white families in both income and wealth.

The expansion of the global economy has helped create more high-paying jobs in manufacturing in the United States.

According to Karl Marx, which class forms the core of the industrial proletariat?

Who are the working poor?

The richest 5 percent of U.S. families own about what percentage of privately owned property?

Which of the following factors tends to raise your social standing?

About 40 percent of U.S. families have little or no wealth.

In the United States, about 44 million people are officially counted among the poor.

Which of the following class levels contains the least amount of racial and ethnic diversity?

Using what you know about the distribution of income in the United States, why is it incorrect to say that we live in a "middle-class society"?

Read the statements below about social mobility in the United States. Which of the statements is True?

In recent decades, William Julius Wilson claims, many central cities no longer have enough jobs to support the families who live there.

In terms of absolute numbers, most poor people in the United States are:

Working class people might also be described as _____.

Discuss poverty trends in the United States in recent decades with regard to (a) percentage of the population that is poor, (b) children, (c) the elderly, and (d) women.