Low Income People by Alexandra Segura https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg By: Alexandra, Jackie, Kim, Jeanette en-us 2017-05-05 21:40:14 UTC 2023-04-06 03:53:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Sweatshops? 319428 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170609098 Sweatshops were jobs in where employees would get less than minimum wage and would be poorly mistreated. Many families would need money and were treated as slaves they would be get $1 an hour. The environment they were in had very low maintenance. These sweatshops were made 90% of woman and it was mandatory to take birth control.]]> 2017-05-08 19:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170609098 What kind of health problems did they suffer from? 330125 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627449 *Farmers were unable to to make an adequate living from farming which resulted in them living in dilapidated houses with no running water or bathrooms.
*Those who lived in the area were malnourished and suffered from severe health problems.
*Many children had eye and ear diseases along with bone diseases.
*The prevalence of bacterial and parasitic disease along with anemia could result in loss of energy and the ability to live a normal life.]]> 2017-05-08 21:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627449 Why were woman dependent on welfare in the 1950's? 319428 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627490 Woman were dependent on welfare because that was the only way they would survive many of these woman were single mothers and couldn't obtain a job because of the discrimination that was occurring.]]> 2017-05-08 21:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627490 What kinds of conditions did low-income people face? 330125 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627607 *The poorest American's had to take the worst jobs.
*With no education or little education, people were at mercy of employers paid them the lowest wages possible.
*Were often placed in terrible work conditions.

]]> 2017-05-08 21:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627607 What percent of Americans did not benefit from the general prosperity of the 1950's? 329574 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627804 20 to 25 percent of Americans lived in poverty in the 1950's ]]> 2017-05-08 21:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170627804 How were they overlooked by the government social programs? 329574 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170628417 Most government programs only helped the middle class or big farmers or unionized workers. ]]> 2017-05-08 21:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170628417 Who were other dependents on welfare 327425 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170628720 Other dependents on welfare were men unskilled whom were considered too old to employ]]> 2017-05-08 21:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170628720 What did many low-income people in the rural South do to make a living? 327425 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170628787 Many of the low-income people in the south would operate small farms and live off them. This was their main source of income.]]> 2017-05-08 21:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170628787 330125 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170657767 2017-05-09 02:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170657767 329574 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170876075 2017-05-09 20:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170876075 327425 https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170880150 2017-05-09 20:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/330125/oh9oo2k9nqeg/wish/170880150