Statement of Problem Although Karl Marx had been relevant and influential since the 1830s, it was not until he earned his PhD from the University of Jena in 1941 and established himself as an author, academic, and a journalist living between Cologne and Berlin both in Germany (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015) that his theories began to capture the mind of masses. It was when he penned his signature work, the Communist Manifesto (1948) that he solidified his stance on power and power relationship within society. Marx’s theory states that, Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat (Walters, 2015). Moreover, his philosophies
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Managers
2. Supervisors
3. Professionals
4. White-collar skilled workers
5. Blue-collar skilled workers
6. Nonskilled workers
Persons sharing the same features, as far as income, power, capital, opportunity, and so on, would represent an occupational code (Wolff & Zacharias, 2013).
Figure 1: Net worth and financial wealth distribution in the U.S. in 2010 (Domhoff, 2015)
According to the latest US Census data, nationally the median household income, in 2013 dollars, between the years 2009-2013 was $53,046 (US Census , 2015). The same US Census webpage stated the 14.5% of the US population lives in poverty, which equates to a median household income of $28,155 (US Census , 2015). In Des Moines, Iowa, the median household income does $38,004 merely $10,000 a year above the poverty line. The average household size in Des Moines is 2.36, which would equal $16,103 per person (Zip Atlas, 2015), which would make little room for financial error or little to no disposable income.
Median household income (dollars) $38,003.73
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These types of insufficiency and lack of authentic opportunities for upward mobility is often generational in these areas. The scarceness is represented by lower property values, lower performing schools, lack of healthy food options, single parent households, high percentage of individuals with criminal records, etc. Many of these trends are the same in Des Moines as they are nationally and according to The Working Poor Families Project’s Low-Income Working Families: The Racial/Ethnic Divide winter 2014-2015 policy brief, these trends effect racial and ethnic minorities at a much higher rate than working class Whites (Povich, Roberts, & Mather,
Managers
2. Supervisors
3. Professionals
4. White-collar skilled workers
5. Blue-collar skilled workers
6. Nonskilled workers
Persons sharing the same features, as far as income, power, capital, opportunity, and so on, would represent an occupational code (Wolff & Zacharias, 2013).
Figure 1: Net worth and financial wealth distribution in the U.S. in 2010 (Domhoff, 2015)
According to the latest US Census data, nationally the median household income, in 2013 dollars, between the years 2009-2013 was $53,046 (US Census , 2015). The same US Census webpage stated the 14.5% of the US population lives in poverty, which equates to a median household income of $28,155 (US Census , 2015). In Des Moines, Iowa, the median household income does $38,004 merely $10,000 a year above the poverty line. The average household size in Des Moines is 2.36, which would equal $16,103 per person (Zip Atlas, 2015), which would make little room for financial error or little to no disposable income.
Median household income (dollars) $38,003.73
Average household size …show more content…
These types of insufficiency and lack of authentic opportunities for upward mobility is often generational in these areas. The scarceness is represented by lower property values, lower performing schools, lack of healthy food options, single parent households, high percentage of individuals with criminal records, etc. Many of these trends are the same in Des Moines as they are nationally and according to The Working Poor Families Project’s Low-Income Working Families: The Racial/Ethnic Divide winter 2014-2015 policy brief, these trends effect racial and ethnic minorities at a much higher rate than working class Whites (Povich, Roberts, & Mather,