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[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/our-inequality-an-introduction/ by Colin Gordon 6/3/14 DISSENT] | [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/our-inequality-an-introduction/ by Colin Gordon 6/3/14 DISSENT] | ||
Inequality is greater now than it has been at any time in the last century, and the gaps in wages, income, and wealth are wider in the United States than in any other democratic and developed economy. Yet we lack a clear and compelling account of how and why we arrived this point. Our current economic troubles have aimed a spotlight at our inequality problem, but they did not create it. | Inequality is greater now than it has been at any time in the last century, and the gaps in wages, income, and wealth are wider in the United States than in any other democratic and developed economy. Yet we lack a clear and compelling account of how and why we arrived this point. Our current economic troubles have aimed a spotlight at our inequality problem, but they did not create it. | ||
=====How the Deck is Stacked: Income Inequality in the U.S. - Lesson Plan===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/lesson-plans/2016/06/lesson-plan-income-inequality-in-the-united-states by PBS 11/6/16] | |||
Watch this PBS NewsHour video story ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Poor’ to see other Americans participate in the survey you completed for a warm-up. Why do you think participants underestimated income inequality in the U.S. to such a significant degree? Why did the low-income workers have a more realistic sense of income inequality? Is it a problem that Americans do not know how much income inequality exists in the U.S.? | |||
