Chapters 5 and 6 provided a significant amount of insight, including reinforcing the lesson learned with our Budget Exercise. Namely, an under skilled, under educated person in the U.S. is consigned to the cycle of poverty. Our reading also showed the racial disparity experienced by minorities, as well social and familial factors, such as the significance of female headed households.
Social, racial and ethic stratification are like ankle shackles attached before a long race: you may still finish, might even have a long shot at winning, but know that you start out handicapped.
This reading focused on issues pertaining to poverty in America, including class, gender and even geographic distinctions in job opportunities. Still, though, these factors reflect relative poverty and quality of life issues that are so dramatically different than the abject survival mode poverty on the global front.
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