https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359 en-us 2017-05-09 01:40:16 UTC 2017-05-09 17:11:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 330365 https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170655183 -The distribution of wealth during the 1950s was unequal. 
-The lowest fifth received 5 percent of the total income. 
-The highest fifth received 45 percent of the total income. 
 ]]> 2017-05-09 02:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170655183 330365 https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170656534 -The very poor people took the worst jobs. 
-These people had little education and took the jobs with really bad condition and the lowest wages. 
-Factories and plants where employees worked for hours were paid less than the government's minimum wage. 
-These working conditions were dangerous and risked employees lives. 
-A sweatshop where workers made artificial Christmas trees were paid $1 and hour with no benefits. 
-The workers had no job security. 
-Once the Christmas season was over, they were out in the streets again. ]]> 2017-05-09 02:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170656534 330365 https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170658273 -Between 20 to 25 percent lived in poverty during this time.  
-The poor had bad quality housing, medicine, and food, and they lacked opportunities to improve their conditions. 
 -Many wanted to live the "American Dream" and have well-paying jobs. 
-Americans benefited form a growing economy and government programs to gain better jobs. 
 ]]> 2017-05-09 02:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170658273 330365 https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170659961 -Housing laws mostly helped the middle class. 
-Labor laws and farm programs establishing during the New Deal helped unionized workers and big farmers. 
-Government programs (such as Social Security) and the minimum wage laws did not cover the lowest paid workers, such as hospital janitors, restaurant workers such as bussers and dishwashers, domestic servants, and migrant farm workers. ]]> 2017-05-09 02:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170659961 330365 https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170662619 - Many people thought that a woman's place was in the house where they would take care of the children, clean the house, and attend their husband's needs. 
- Society made no contingency for the women that were on their own, some with children, or their husband's have abandoned them. 
- Women were discriminated as they were hunting for jobs and were forced into low-status and low-paying jobs in "women's work" 
- Single mothers had no one to look after their children and had to leave them alone at home to attend work.

]]> 2017-05-09 03:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170662619 330365 https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170663758 - Many of the poorest Americans were almost unemployable and depended on government welfare to survive. 
- Other dependents who were men with very few skills whom many employers considered too old to work. Just over 40 years old, but who were still too young to qualify for Social Security. 
- These men had to deal with low-paying jobs, but were the first to be fired by employers. ]]> 2017-05-09 03:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170663758 330365 https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170665755 - Some of the worst areas of poverty was in the South and southeastern United States. 
- Farmers were unable to make a quality living from farming. 
- They lived in bad homes without running water or bathrooms. 
- Many people living int these areas would often get sick and caused them to have health problems. 
- Children had skin infections, eye and ear diseases and ate poor food which had bacteria and later, children suffered from anemia. 
- These kids lost their energy and and ability to live a normal, active life.   ]]> 2017-05-09 04:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/330365/elgmri68c359/wish/170665755