Critical Thinking Questions

Ch 8 Structural Sources of Societal Change: Economic and Demographic

Welfare/Work Program

• How do structural barriers make it difficult for unemployed people to obtain and retain jobs?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of requiring single mothers to work and to put their children in day care instead of having the mothers stay home with their children?

Aliens Arrested

• Are illegal workers really taking jobs away from U. S. citizens, or are law enforcement officials simply responding to public hysteria over immigration?
• Why is a country built by "immigrants" how unwilling to accept immigrants? How much of this fear is based on facts and how much on racial and ethnic prejudice?

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