Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Métropole — Bac 2021

SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Faire société ». Partie 1 (16 pts) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (500 mots maximum) : Explain what the documents show about poverty in the United States. Make sure that you address: - factors and signs of poverty; - factors and signs of improvement; - variations over time and by categories of population. Partie 2 (4 pts) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document A : But Elise Gould, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, noted some disturbing trends. Although median household income rose for four consecutive years, the rate of growth and the income level has slowed significantly and is slightly below where it was almost two decades ago. “It's a step in the right direction, but most families barely made up the ground lost” with the recession, she said. […] The Census Bureau also found that there was little change in income inequality last year. (l. 30-37) Page 2 sur 8 DOCUMENT A U.S. Census Bureau Reports Poverty Rate Down, But Millions Still Poor Lawrence, Mass., has struggled to find its economic base since the decline of manufacturing. While the city is witnessing pockets of investment, as of August 2019, one-third of Lawrence's children lived in poverty, 36 percent of residents received aid under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and just over 24 percent of 5 residents lived in poverty. The U.S. poverty rate declined slightly last year, but finally fell below the 2007 level, right before the Great Recession pushed millions of Americans out of work and into financial distress. The improving economy was a key factor in the decline. The U.S. Census Bureau 10 noted in its annual report on income and poverty that there were 2.3 million more full- time, year-round workers last year and that median earnings for all such workers rose by more than three percent. Amid these positive signs, the bureau reported separately that the number of people in the U.S. who did not have health insurance rose from 25.6 million people in 2017 to 15 27.5 million in 2018. That included 4.3 million children. Health advocacy groups called the increase extremely troubling and blamed declines in Medicaid coverage, especially for Hispanic children and children under the age of six. Despite the decline in