First there is the the lower class; the lower class is typified by poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. People of this class, few of those who have finished high school, suffer from lack of medical care, housing and food, decent clothing, safety, and vocational training (page 96).The media often stigmatize the lower class as “the underclass,” inaccurately characterizing poor people as welfare mothers who abuse the system by having more and more babies, welfare fathers who are able to work but do not, drug abusers, criminals, and societal
First there is the the lower class; the lower class is typified by poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. People of this class, few of those who have finished high school, suffer from lack of medical care, housing and food, decent clothing, safety, and vocational training (page 96).The media often stigmatize the lower class as “the underclass,” inaccurately characterizing poor people as welfare mothers who abuse the system by having more and more babies, welfare fathers who are able to work but do not, drug abusers, criminals, and societal