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What Keeps People Poor?

Institutional Classism:

  • Not enough education
  • Bad schools
  • Bad health
  • Few opportunities
  • Institutional classism
  • Bureaucracy keeping people from receiving help (Section 8, food stamps, etc).
  • Experience needed for better jobs - who you know helps you get ahead.
  • Debt!
  • Minimum wage =/= living wage
  • Cost of college/higher education

Understanding Classism

and Class Discrimination

What About Santa Cruz?

Median income for a family of four is $93,000

A family of four qualifies for housing assistance (Section 8) if they make below $74,000 ($52,000 for an individual).

About 15% of the residents live below the poverty line.

What is Social Class?

Social class refers to your socio-economic class; how much money you make and often your educational level.

In America...

Upper Class/Aristocrates: This is the class with the largest range of incomes. By some measures, the top 1-2% of society or households that have a net worth of 1 million or more. By other measures, simply those who are above middle class. Those who hold the most economic and political power. CEOs, celebrities, politicians, etc.

Middle/Bourgeoisie/White Collar Class: Skilled workers with college degrees. Office jobs. Doctors, teachers, engineers, managers, etc.

Lower/Proletariat/ Working/Blue Collar Class: Minimum wage jobs, manual labor, "unskilled" jobs such as janitors, construction workers, fast-food workers, etc.

What is Classism?

Income Levels in America:

Classism is prejudice and/or discrimination based on social class or perceived social class. It includes individual attitudes and behaviors, and systems of policies and practices that are set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes.

Classism is held in place by a system of beliefs and cultural attitudes that ranks people according to economic status, family lineage, job status, level of education, and other divisions.

Upper Class/Aristocrates: Generally considered anything $100,000 a year /individual or $200,000 per family of four.

Middle/Bourgeoisie/White Collar Class: Generally considered around $40,000 a year/ individual and $100,000 per year for a family of four

Lower/Proletariat/ Working/Blue Collar Class: At or near the "Poverty Line:" $23,850 per year for a family of four, or $11,239 for an individual

How Does Classism Work?

Middle-class and upper-class people (dominant group members) are seen as smarter and more articulate than working-class and poor people (subordinated groups). In this way, middle-class and upper-class people define for everyone else what is “normal” or “acceptable” in the class hierarchy.

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