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**Your Money's Worth: Examining Facts and Attitudes About Income Inequality** Overview: What does income equality say about contemporary American society? What should be done to address income inequality? In this lesson you will examine New York Times infographics about income and wealth distribution in the United States and discuss what this information says about society. Your job is to reflect on what you have learned by making a claim about American society today. You must support your claim using evidence from the infographics.

//If you wish, you may work with a partner for the following assignment.//

Examine **at least three** of the following graphics:

[|The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have?] [|What Percent are You?] [|Where the 1 Percent Fit in the Hierarchy of Income] [|Lower Taxes for the Highest Earners] [|Comparing Economic Mobility] [|Inflation-Adjusted Change in Median Earnings for American Men, 1969-2009] [|Share of Total U.S. Income Going to Each Income Percentile and Distribution of Wealth by Class, 1983-2009] [|A Closer Look at Income Mobility] (from 2005)

Then answer the following questions
 * 1) Describe the information that is visually represented in this chart, graph or infographic.
 * 2) How might you explain or interpret this information?
 * 3) What, if anything, is surprising to you about this information and why?
 * 4) What does the information in the infographic make you think?

Then, complete this sentence: “Today, America is…” and then select five pieces of data from the infographics you just examined to support your claim.

What have you learned that might help you answer the question: Is there a conflict between rich and poor? What struck you as you read your peers’ interpretations of the infographics? What questions do you still have?

Submit your written reflection through email or in person. Make sure that both names are on the paper if you worked with a partner.

When you are done:
How Fares the Dream? read the article and answer the questions