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Assignment:
1. Report on the unemployment rate, average family income, poverty rate, and homeless population in your community. How does each of these numbers compare to the national average?
2. Explain how the Learning Resources have helped you see how some races, ethnicities, and genders are more impacted by wealth inequality than others.
- Why do these disparities exist? What are the structural or policy barriers that helped to create them?
3. Explain the extent to which you have experienced wealth inequality and how this may inform your work as an HSPP.
Make sure to integrate and document ideas and concepts from the Learning Resources.
Resources:
The Economist. (2018, October 16). Mapping poverty in America [Video]. YouTube. Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.
Politizane. (2012, November 20). Wealth inequality in America [Video]. YouTube. Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 6 minutes.
Gross, T. (Host). (2020, December 23). How COVID-19 became a "tremendous windfall" for the ultra rich. In Fresh Air. National Public Radio.
Mooney, T. (2020, March 30). The disturbing history of tipping in the U.S.: "It's literally a slave wage." CBS News.