A lecture by a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who tells why current family income is up and poverty is down, based on a new analysis of population surveys from the years 1967 to 1999. Recent statistics show that families have improved their economic situations since 1994.
Incomes are up and poverty is down.
This analysis will show that family income goes up and down with business cycles, but only because worker's hours go up and down, not because salaries have changed. Copyright 2000 UC Regents. All rights reserved.