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Video Links:

• 7.1 The Most Expensive Homes in the World
  Description: This video takes a look at the most expensive homes in the world.
   
• 7.2 Social Class
  Description: Filmed over three years (1999-2002), "Country Boys" tracks the dramatic stories of Chris and Cody from ages 15 to 18. David Sutherland's film bears witness to the two boys' struggles to overcome the poverty and family dysfunction of their childhood in a quest for a brighter future.
   
• 7.3 Rebuilding the Middle Class
  Description: Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren, newly appointed by President Obama to set up the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, outlines what is wrong with today's financial markets and how to help the middle class rebound from the recession in this 2010 address at UC Berkeley. 
   
• 7.4 America in Recession
  Description: Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she’s come to know at the hair salon she’s frequented for the past twenty years. The film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister’s risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home, and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon — from well-to-do bankers to struggling actors, each with a story to tell about how they’re getting by in these turbulent times.

Audio Links:

• 7.1 Get Rich Quick
  Description: Stories of people trying to get rich quick or otherwise make something for nothing. As everyone knows, there's no such thing as something for nothing. You always pay a price.
   
• 7.2 Money and Behavior
  Description: This podcast examines what happens when you suddenly strike it rich and the power money has over our lives, for good and bad.
   
• 7.3 Wealth Gap
  Description: This podcast examines the pay gap between minorities in Boston.

Web Resources:

• 7.1 Poverty
  Description: Poverty USA seeks to educate and promote understanding about poverty and its root causes.
   
• 7.2 World Internet Usage
  Description: This article examines the impact that the internet has on psychological health.
   
• 7.3  Lower-Income Families
  Description: This article from Contexts Magazine focuses on assistance that is available from the Internal Revenue Service for lower-income families.
   
• 7.4 Global Poverty Rates
  Description: Global poverty rates have actually been on the decline since 1990 — the World Bank calculates that 1.1 billion people escaped extreme poverty between 1990 and 2013. The chart above illustrates these trends.