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Question 1. What is poverty?
Question 2. How is it defined and by whom?
Question 3. Is it only the poorest people in society who are subjected to negative health impacts and bad outcomes?
Question 4. Is the burden of poverty shared equally across race, gender, age, immigration status and other aspects of human identity and experience? If not, why?
Question 5. What have you learned so far about structural inequality and inequity?
Question 6. What about income inequality?
Question 7. The larger the gap between a society's wealthiest people and its poorest will also increase the severity and number of disadvantages of poverty. As the American middle class shrinks and more and more people sink into poverty, there are dire predictions about the future health of all Americans. Why are these concerns of even greater concern in regard to the health of communities of color?
Question 8. Finally, how does the cyclical nature of poverty impact individuals and their communities over across the life course?
Question 9. What is the impact of inter-generational poverty and how would you begin to change these destructive forces or hope to change them?