Explore the video and multimedia resources for further exploration of topics.

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Video

• How Big Businesses Benefit from Social Welfare Programs 
  How much would Walmart’s prices go up if they paid all of their workers a living wage?

• Is the Gender Wage Gap Real, and Are Women to Blame? 
  Is the gender wage gap--if it exists--due to women making choices that harm their earnings?

• Wealth Inequality in America 
  What we think inequality looks like and what it actually looks like are quite different.

Audio

• Illinois Congressman: Poverty Plays a Large Role in Chicago Gun Violence

An interview about the links between poverty and violence with Chicago’s Congressman Danny Davis.

Web

• Absolute Poverty in the United States 
  Access to the current official federal poverty guidelines, via the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Housing and Urban Development 
  An explanation of the benefits of Housing Choice Vouchers and the application process.
• SNAP Benefits and Research
  Is the program formerly known as Food Stamps having as much of an impact as we’d hope?