Poverty in the US
What percentage of people in the US live below the poverty rate?
Which group has the highest rate of poverty in the US?
a) Black
b) Hispanic
c) White
d) Asian
e) Native Americans
Which country has the greatest number of female billionaires?
What percent of the Hamilton student body are students of color?
Which age group has the largest poverty rate?
1) Adults
2) Children
3) Seniors
True or False: Roughly 1 in 10 black and Hispanic households spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing
False:
Roughly 1 in 6 black and Hispanic households spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing.
This leaves fewer resources that could go towards furthering education, health care, and other basic needs.
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/06/16/report-finds-significant-racial-ethnic-disparities/
Which industry has the largest gap between men and women?
What is the female to male ratio at Hamilton?
53%/47%
Since 2000, when was the poverty rate at an all time high? Why?
2009, 9.9%, due to the 2008 financial crisis/market crash
https://www.thebalance.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506
For white children compared to black children born into the 20th percentile of household income, the probability of moving upward is
a) 75% (whites), 70% (blacks)
b) 75% (whites), 50% (blacks)
c) 25% (whites), 20% (blacks)
d) 25% (whites), 5% (blacks)
a) 75% (whites), 70% (blacks)
Encouraging statistics!
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/06/16/report-finds-significant-racial-ethnic-disparities/
Rounded to the nearest thousand, by how much does the poverty threshold change from a two person household to a four person household?
a) $5,000
b) $7,000
c) $9,000
Which racial group is the highest earning in the US?
Which two states have the largest gender wage gap?
2 part question -- must get all parts correct!
1) When was the highest unemployment rate in US history?
a) 1932
b) 1933
c) 1934
2) How did the US government (specifically the executive branch) react? What was the name of the program?
Comment on the differences between infant mortality rates between black and white infants.
11.4: That's the infant mortality rate, per 1,000 live births, for black infants. This is over twice as high as the infant mortality rate of 4.9 for white infants. Similarly, life expectancy for black Americans (75.5 years) is still almost four years shorter than that of white Americans (79 years).
https://psmag.com/economics/four-figures-that-explain-racial-inequality-in-america
Why do women tend to earn less even though they earned more than 50% of degrees? (World Economic Forum)
This discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that women tend to pursue fields that pay less than fields pursued by men.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/the-us-gender-gap-in-5-charts