CHAPTER 9 PREVIEW PRESENTATION

UPPER CLASS

• Makes up just 1 percent of popuation
• Two groups : "old money" and "new money"

UPPER MIDDLE CLASS

• Primarily high income business people
• Most have college educations and higher level degrees

LOWER MIDDLE CLASS

• Hold white collar jobs-work that does not involve manual labor
• Most require less education and provide lower income

THE WORKING CLASS

• Hold jobs that require manual labor
• Factory workers, tradespeople, less skilled workers
• Have been labeled blue collar jobs

WORKING POOR

• Work at the lowest paying jobs
• Often temporary or seasonal
• Housecleaning. Migrant farmwork, day laboring

UNDERCLASS

• Families that have experience unemployment and poverty over several years
• Some work but mostly undesirable low paying jobs
• Day to day struggle for survival