The middle class blamed the working class for all the wrongs in society especially the poverty and the crime, and saw them as a hindrance and dirt in their perfect middle class world. ... So when he is offered a way out of poverty and a chance to move into the middle class by Higgins, he politely refuses, not wishing to leave the heart-warming, drunken and generally funnier ways and traditions of the working class. He says Undeserving poverty is my line'. ...

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America has plenty of resources and wealth to fix this inequality gap and eliminate poverty, there is still other countries doing a better job of reducing it. Holly Sklar, a policy analyst and syndicated columnist, writes in her essay, "The number of Americans in poverty is a group so large it would take the combined populations of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas, plus Arkansas, to match it. That's according to the Census Bureau's latest count of 37 million people below the poverty line. ... Inequality continues to grow and those living in poverty are suffering more now th...

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Most movies and shows about women contain a plot line where woman's life revolves around a man. ... Hooks took special offense to this stating, "I was especially disturbed by the assumption that the poor were without values [] I had been taught in a culture of poverty to be intelligent, honest, to work hard, and always to be a person of my word" (3). Her grandmother taught her to never take a job that would challenge one's dignity and her parents taught her to work hard to bring herself out of poverty. ...

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Even those below the so-called poverty line are willing to trade in their hard earned dollars (much needed for more important things of use-value) for highly regarded clothing labels in an attempt to buy their way into middle class society. ... For instance, Cynthia Nellis (2003) describes a woman who is all business on the outside, but all woman on the inside by wearing a business suit lined with lace. ...

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The family was also allowed to walk in the very back of the line to Duarte's graveside, which was supposed to be considered a privilege. ... In other words, it was a way for Evita to make a difference in the poverty she was in touch with every day. ...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. INTRODUCTION 4 3. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 4 3.1. Population 4 3.2. American classes 5 3.2.1. Upper class 5 3.2.2. The upper middle-class 5 3.2.3. The lower middle class 5 3.2.4. The working class 6 3.2.5. The lower class 6 4. LANGUAGE 6 5. RELIGION 6 6. ECONOMIC ...

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