Introduction to Sociology

THINK IT OVER

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  Why do you think millennials have such a high number of households living in poverty? 
  

GLOSSARY

discouraged workers: those who have stopped looking for employment due to the lack of suitable positions available
structural unemployment: a societal level of disjuncture between people seeking jobs and the jobs that are available
out of the labor force: those who are not working and not looking for work—whether they want employment or not; also termed “not in the labor force”
underemployed: individuals who are employed in a job that is below their skills
underemployment: a state in which a person accepts a lower paying, lower status job than his or her education and experience qualifies him or her to perform

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   BLS Reports. A profile of the working poor, 2016. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/working-poor/2016/home.htm. ↵
   
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   Gurrentz, Benjamin (April 2018) Millennial Marriage: How Much Does Economic Security Matter to Marriage Rates for Young Adults? Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2018/demo/SEHSD-WP2018-09.html ↵
   
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   Fry, Richard (2017). 5 facts about Millennial households. Pew Research Center. Retrieved from: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/06/5-facts-about-millennial-households/ ↵
   

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