Chapter 5. Poverty and Inequality

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Video Clips

- 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 Clips

- The Impact of Wealth and Poverty on Our Interpersonal Behavior
  A Berkeley study looks at how we act differently when given advantages and power, and when they’re given to someone else instead.

- The Aftermath of Moving from AFDC to TANF
  TANF was supposed to reduce the number of people “stuck” on welfare—has it worked?