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Feb 1, 2022 · Societal influences include macroeconomic circumstances, cultural narratives, structural prejudices, and salient consumption behaviors by the rich and the poor. I discuss how these influences shape (and distort) attributions of economic outcomes and lay beliefs about wealth and poverty.
- How Do People Make Sense of Wealth and Poverty
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- The Impact of Perceived Material Wealth and Perceiver Personality on First Impressions
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- Why Do Americans Believe in Economic Mobility? Economic Inequality, External Attributions of Wealth and Poverty, and The Belief in Economic Mobility
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- Affluence Cues and First Impressions
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- Wealthy Whites and Poor Blacks
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- The Subversive Nature of Inequality
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- How Do People Make Sense of Wealth and Poverty
Poverty impacts families through multiple generations. How? It’s hard for people experiencing poverty to escape poverty. This is known as “the poverty trap,” which forms when people need money to increase their wealth. One example is the cost of education.
- Family Problems. The poor are at greater risk for family problems, including divorce and domestic violence. As Chapter 9 “Sexual Behavior” explains, a major reason for many of the problems families experience is stress.
- Health, Illness, and Medical Care. The poor are also more likely to have many kinds of health problems, including infant mortality, earlier adulthood mortality, and mental illness, and they are also more likely to receive inadequate medical care.
- Education. Poor children typically go to rundown schools with inadequate facilities where they receive inadequate schooling. They are much less likely than wealthier children to graduate from high school or to go to college.
- Housing and Homelessness. The poor are, not surprisingly, more likely to be homeless than the nonpoor but also more likely to live in dilapidated housing and unable to buy their own homes.
Aug 31, 2015 · Poverty holds a seemingly unbreakable grip on families, neighborhoods, cities, and entire countries. It stretches from one generation to the next, trapping individuals in a socioeconomic pit that is nearly impossible to ascend.
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By understanding the decision-making of people in poverty as an adaptive shift in underlying processes, policy-makers and others combating poverty can target their efforts in more sensitive, sustainable and ultimately empowering ways.
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May 17, 2019 · Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment — in particular growing up in poverty — can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. What’s less well understood is exactly how.
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1 day ago · Toward a future of resilience with equity. The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2024 reminds us that economic inclusion is not just an investment choice for governments, it is also a path to meaningfully change the lives of millions of people who struggle daily against poverty, lack of opportunity, disillusionment, and despair.
