Great video about the black / white wealth gap...

Check out the video in this article...

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/12/news/economy/wealth-by-race-pew/

6 Of The Fastest-Growing Jobs In America Pay Low Wages...

Please read these two short articles and respond to them on your blog...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/low-wage-occupations-grow_n_7065174.html?utm_hp_ref=money&ir=Money

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/15/we-are-spending-153-billion-a-year-to-subsidize-mcdonalds-and-walmarts-low-wage-workers/

What is class?

Answer the following 3 question on your own blog...

1. Yesterday you completed a KWL chart asking the following questions...

What do you Know - What is “class”?  How many “classes” are there?  The majority of people are what “class”?  What “class” are you?  How are the “classes” different?  What is “class consciousness”?

What do you Want to learn?:  What would you like to know about class and class consciousness?

I would like you to reflect on these questions on your blog as well.

2. Take a look at these definitions...

http://udel.edu/~cmarks/What%20is%20social%20class.htm

http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2012/09/13/where-do-you-fall-in-the-american-economic-class-system

What do the above links tell you about class? Reflect on your blog.

3. Class structure can be a confusing thing.  People have different ideas of what "class" is and what the class structure of our society is like.  Take a look at these images and graphs.  Each is trying to tell us something about class structure in the United States.  Each has a unique point of view or approach to looking at the issue.  On your own blogs, tell me what you think each image is trying to tell us?  What do you think?  Which is the most interesting or tells you the most?  Which tells you the least...