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Video Links:

1. Video 10.1: Bill Moyers - Expose on the Business of Poverty
Description: Poverty has become big business in the United States as a number of corporations have found ways to fill the “need” many poor people have for credit/financing. This investigative report describes predatory lending practices that specifically target poor people.

2. Video 10.2: The Missing Class
Description: Bill Moyers interviews sociologist Katherine Newman about her research on the Missing Class in America. Newman explores what makes families living in the Missing Class, too rich to be poor but struggling to meet basic needs, particularly vulnerable.

3. Video 10.3: West Virginia, Still Home
Description: This short video from the New York Times profiles economically depressed McDowell County, W. Virginia. The area offers few economic opportunities and so its young people are moving away. It depicts an unfortunate cycle that is difficult to halt, much less reverse.

4. Video 10.4: New Ways of Looking at Poverty
Description: This brief video from the World Bank explores new ways of defining what constitutes poverty and how poverty impacts people and groups around the world. New ideas about how to explore poverty and study poverty issues is presented.

Audio Link:

1. Audio 10.1: Tough Choices: How the Poor Spend Money
Description: This Marketplace segment examines how those at the economic margins make decisions about how to allocate their scant economic resources.

Web Links:

1. Web 10.1: The National Longitudinal Surveys
Description: The National Longitudinal Surveys of the U.S. Department of Labor’ s Bureau of Labor Statistics gather detailed information about labor market experiences and other aspects of the lives of American men and women.

2. Web 10.2: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a webpage on poverty guidelines, research, and measurement, which includes information about how Mollie Orshansky developed the poverty thresholds during the 1960s.

3. Web 10.3: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Description: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of U.S. men, women, and children and the families in which they reside. Data on employment, income, wealth, health, housing, food expenditures, transfer income, and marital and fertility behavior have been collected annually since 1968.

4. Web 10.4: The Living Wage Calculator
Description: This interactive tool, developed by MIT, allows you to explore costs of living and living wages around the U.S.