Each of these groups enjoyed an increase of about 2.5%. ... The poverty line is the absolute minimum that the government deems necessary for adequate nutrition for a family of four yet the poor are not even making this much money. ... That degree costs money, so only those that can afford the education can improve their skills and in turn reap of the rewards and opportunities now opened to them. The demand curves also leads us to believe that the best performers are rewarded by large increases in wages for only a slight increase in performance. ... There were a number of cases in the video,...

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The bourgeoisie use and abuse the capitalist government for their good, to deepen their pockets, increase their property and causing class system to mover further apart. "increased its capital, and pushed into the backround every class handed down from the middle ages" (475). ... "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation"(476). ... Family's could be one again, with out struggling for money. ... Becoming a docter and a lawyer wouldn't be for the money, but to help people. ...

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According to an article by CNN money, " Premiums for employer- sponsored health insurance increased almost 14 percent between spring 2002 and spring 2003-- the highest increase since 1990." ... Health Insurance companies are continuing to increase workers premiums, raising deductibles, increasing drug co- payments and changing out- of pocket limits. According to the CNN article, " Since 2000, the annual premium payed by employees to insure themselves an their families has increased nearly 49 percent. In 2003, the employee's cost for family coverage increased 13 percent to $2, 412 a year. ...

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One member of parliament placed the value of tax money to be lost with the strict regulation of gin at over 70,000 pounds in 1736. ... According to British Excise Revenue Accounts, from 1701 - 1751 beer production remained almost completely static while gin production increased sixfold. ... While pursuing a path of alcoholism, people had no skills or desire to work, child rearing became difficult, and they had no money to spend on anything except that next fix. ... "If the evil of gin increases in the next ten years as it has done in the last,...children must be born in gin...and kick out ...

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From then, inequality has only increased, and is at an all times high within the past 75 years and all industrialized countries. ... The upper class now earns 8 times more money than the average household, and 55 times more than a poor household. ...

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Despite having an increased empowerment, similarities between both societies is portrayed through women's role as domestic goddesses and their continual dependence on a protective male figure. ... " The acquisition of wealth did not necessarily determine a superior rank shown by the difference between 'new money' earned through businesses and 'old money' from a line of inheritance. ... Heckerling highlights the flexible nature of 20th Century's society as opposed to Regency's rigid nature through Tai's increase in popularity. ... Heckerling challe...

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As the rich attained more land, they would invest more money in slaves to gain high profits from the cultivation of tobacco or rice. ... By 1760, the amount of poor was increasing at a greater speed than the population as a whole was which shows that there was a lack of economic development for the lower classes. ...

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Kay causally mentions how workers that were laid off should make money elsewhere because they were not needed at GM. ... This shows how many people were in desperate need of making money to support them. Some of the ways people obtained money were by donating blood for cash and by being human statues at a Gatsby party. ... Crime rate also increased because people were trying to survive by any means necessary, even if it meant committing a crime. ... This shows how jobless people were desperate to get money in order to survive. ...

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First and foremost, businesses are responsible to their shareholders, and this makes layoffs a common occurrence to save money in tough economic times. For those that are being laid off, this usually means that they will have less money to spend. ... When taxes are decreased, it can indirectly provide businesses with increased revenue and additional capital that can when be put back I to operating the business. ...

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Class Creating America My Conversation with G. William Domhoff A) Domhoff believes that class is a pre-determined concept that involves class and power along with that of social relationships and lifestyle. In the economic sense there are relationships between two different people, such as...

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This solution would also create higher tax revenues, which for a liberal, amounts to more public money to spend on the greater good, or to a conservative, would mean more money to pay off the federal deficit. Opponents to this proposition would say that if business were forced to pay workers more money, they would be unable to afford to hire new workers and maybe even be forced to lay some employees off. ... Although the employees must come up with the money, it is reimbursed and a step in the right direction. ... If a company can pay its workers low-wages, it can keep costs low and therefore,...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that money provides opportunities to people. Money is an essential factor of people's life. ... All of displeasing conditions of their lives force them to raise money in every way they can, including taking bribe in elections. ... When an inefficient government manages the country, welfare is not provided directly to grassroots while their wealth increases suspiciously without investigation. ...

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When Pip moves to London to increase his social status, his life as a "gentleman- is no more satisfying "and certainly no more moral "than his previous life as a blacksmith's apprentice. ... In fact, he looks forward to Joe's visit "with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity," and he states that he "certainly would have paid money" in order to keep Joe away (217). ... The novel therefore uses Joe to define true gentlemanliness; it is not dependent on one's social class, status, or wealth; it is dependent on one's inherent qu...

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The people working for a subsistence wage will form a separate social class known as the working class and will look at the world in different ways to the capitalist who will be much better off money wise. ... This will eventually rid the industry of competition and increase earnings for the capitalist. ... However as technology improves the capitalist will invest money into machinery. ...

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People argue whether the system is fair and if it increases or reduces inequality. ... The government's "free money" could be considered the primary cause of the dissolution of the working-class and households in America. ... People "work the system" to avoid working at all and leave more opportunities for people with money, connections, or pure willingness to progress. ...

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They were often given the most disgusting jobs, which would also not earn them very much money. ... " Yes the immediate victory may have gone to the bourgeois, however through the development of industry, the proletariat increased in number as well as in power, being concentrated in greater masses and growing in strength. ...

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Bodley argues that as societies grew in scale, the power within that society was almost completely delegated to the elite class or ruler, and thus elite-directed growth is not a change that benefits society, but that it is and was mandated for the purposes of increasing the elite power and imperia.    2. ... Money taken from taxes was used to put on large feasts and was also redistributed in the form of gifts, a custom of the time in most relationships including deity worship. ...

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Premarital sex is something most parents do not agree on, especially when they have a daughter. It is almost certain that parents would do just about anything for their daughter not to have sex before marriage. This was a major problem in the working class families in the early ...

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If another form of government were to be put into operation the lifestyles for everyone would increase for the better drastically. ... Materialism is when someone obsesses over material things such as money, a great house, a good car, and so on, in greed. ...

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