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By: Danielle Graber
SOCIAL CLASSES
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INTRO
This PowerPoint is created to show how the social classes how changed from the 1900’s to today.
Social class determines how a person is perceived, that person’s access to information, and what opportunities will be available to a person
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THE UPPER CLASS
• The upper class is divided up into upper class and lower upper class
• The upper class is born into upper class (Ford, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt)
• Old money families• The lower upper class is people who earn the
income (Ceo, investors, actors, musicians)• More financially stable than people born into wealth
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MIDDLE CLASS
middle class is made up of two classes under middle and middle.
Upper middle is made up of politics, military, and successfulness in professions/business
Middle is made up of teachers, firefighters, independent professions, nurses.
Middle class is your average everyday worker that gets paid enough to pay your bills and save just a little.
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LOWER CLASS
• Lower class is made up of underclass and working poor.
• Underclass is made up of people of a history of unemployment.
• The working poor is made up of people that make only minimum wage
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SOCIAL CLASS PERCENTAGES
• 1% of Americans are of the upper class• 40-50% of Americans are in the middle class• 14% is the upper middle class• 30% is the middle class• 13% of Americans are in the working poor
class• 12% of Americans are in the underclass
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CHANGES IN PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE CLASS
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• Social classes change every year , every decade. It just depends on the government and how our economy is changing.
• Your social class depends on race, gender, and age.
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THE PERCENTAGES IN 2010
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• In 2010 alone almost 50% of Americans are of the working and middle classes.
• Imagine by the time it’s the year 2020 that percent will the be almost 80% because how much our economy changes.
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WORKS CITED
• http://www.docstoc.com/docs/43933999/Social-Classes-in-America-Social-Classes