Explain how the Learning Resources have helped you see how some races, ethnicities, and genders are more impacted by wealth inequality than others.

Submit a 1- to 2-page paper in which you:

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?
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?
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.

Learning Resources

Poverty and Wealth Inequality
The Economist. (2018, October 16). Mapping poverty in America [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/5pUhViiNtxg
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.
Politizane. (2012, November 20). Wealth inequality in America [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
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. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949578530/how-covid-19-became-a-tremendous-windfall-for-the-ultra-rich
Mooney, T. (2020, March 30). The disturbing history of tipping in the U.S.: “It’s literally a slave wage.” CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/
The Racial Wealth Gap
McIntosh, K., Moss, E., Nunn, R., & Shambaugh, J. (2020, February 27). Up front: Examining the black-white wealth gap. The Brookings Institution. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/
Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research. (2020, February 24). What drives Native American poverty? https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2020/redbird-what-drives-native-american-poverty.html
Robert Reich. (2019, December 3). How America created its shameful wealth gap [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/9diZJks95Ko
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.