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...most of his 42 years, Kreimer was one of the "status people," a catchall phrase he uses to describe middle-class workaday folks. He grew up in a prosperous household, the son of Victor and Katy Kreimer, a prominent local couple. But even as a kid, friends recall, he was kind of "dopey," a bit rebellious and unmotivated in school...
Dowds says the decrease in the while population can also be attributed to a shift in the size of white and minority household...
...five or six years old. They were always foster children just like Frank, the seven-year-old foster child living in Linda Moore's apartment. In fact, many families in East New York take one or more foster children into their homes, an act which brings cash into the household, but which also adds more children to a ghetto already flooded with them...
...reports went on to say that these conditions effect entire families since most migrant farm workers are heads of a household and do not receive the Social Security and medical benefits to which they are entitled. Also, many children begin working in the same conditions, foregoing educational opportunities, in order to help support their families. The children work in the same miserable conditions as their parents...
...distribution curve. If a middle-class life-style is defined by home ownership, vacations in Orlando and college for the kids, then a middle-size income was shrinking to the level of an inadequate pittance. While the price of housing and tuition went shooting through the roof, the median household income remained stuck where it has been ever since the late '70s, at about $30,000 a year. The curious result being that if you want to be middle class in the old-fashioned suburban sense, you need to be pretty near rich...