Chapter Questions
Discuss the attitudes toward the homeless that you have encountered in your family, school, and community. How were these attitudes developed? Does your attitude differ from other attitudes you have encountered?
Some people think that poor people who are overweight are proof that they aren't really poor. What do you think of this?
Why do you think that the governmental response to Katrina was too little and too late?
How do you think globalization affects human service workers?
Why are children of color the hardest hit by poverty?
Why do you think there is prejudice against the poor?
J. P. Morgan recommended that the difference in pay between a chief corporate executive and the average worker in that corporation should be in a ratio of twenty to one. Today in the United States it is 700 to 1. Why has there been no public outcry about this?