Social Class

Social Class Definitions and Measurements

• New Ways of Looking at Poverty

• How Poverty is Measured in the United States
• Absolute and Relative Poverty

• How Class Works 

• Cultural Capital
• Social Capital
• Social Reproduction

Social Class

• Women with Different Salaries Describe How a 30% Pay Cut Would Affect Their Lives

• The Myth of the 99% and the New American Class Divide
• My Reality: A Hidden America
• How Does Social Class Affect Culture

Middle Class

• Middle Class Defined

• Food -- A Cluttered Life: Middle-Class Abundance
• Space -- A Cluttered Life: Middle Class-Abundance
• Stuff -- A Cluttered Life: Middle-Class Abundance
• What Happened to Middle Class America?

• In today’s economy, even two-income families struggle to make ends meet
• Why So Many Americans in the Middle Class Have no Savings
• How America is Killing the Middle Class

Working Class

• The American Working Class: Voices from Harrisburg, IL

Working Poor

• Invisible Reality: The Working Poor

Upper Class

• Winners Take All
• How American CEOs got so rich

• How tax breaks help the rich

• A Better Way to Tax Rich

• The Rise of the New Global Super Rich
• I'm Black and Member of the 1%

 
Social Mobility

• Social Mobility

• Upward and Downward Social Mobility
• Intergenerational and Intragenerational Mobility
• Economic Mobility in America - Data Visualized

• What prevents the poor from reaching the middle class?

• Education and Social Mobility
• Is America Dreaming? Understanding Social Mobility
• Born Poor, Stay Poor: The Silent Caste System of America

• Reviving the American Dream: Lessons from Big Data

Income and Wealth Inequality

• Wealth Inequality
• The 99% Is a Myth—Here's How It Really Breaks Down

• Income and Wealth Inequality
• The New American Dream
  
• Minimum wage would be $33 today if it grew like Wall Street bonuses have (2019)
  

Poverty

• Testimony of Poverty Experiences to Congress

• Water Access In the U.S.

• Poverty begins in the womb, but it doesn't have to

• We can end poverty, but this is why we haven't 
• Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash

• What Causes Poverty and Can It be Fixed?

• Poverty in the United States
• How Poverty Changes Your Brain
• My Reality: Hidden America - The American Dream (ABC) - Short Version
• My Reality: Hidden America - The American Dream (ABC) - Full Version
• The Story of American Poverty
• 6 alarming facts about poverty in America that you might not realize are true
• Why Is It So Expensive to be Poor?
• San Bernardino: Broken

• Which Families are in Poverty?

• Poverty's New Address In America
• Mapping poverty in America

Social Class, Race, and Ethnicity

• Dr. Michael Eric Dyson: Class vs Race

Social Class and Geographic Location

• Urban & Rural Poverty: Different Educational Challenges
• Life Expectancy Poverty, Wealth and Geography in the U.S.

 
Feminization of Poverty

• Head Start and Feminization of Poverty
• Female, Elderly, and Poor

Social Class and Childhood

• Why Poor Parents Say Yes to Junk Food

• Unequal Childhoods
• Inequality Begins at Home

Childhood Poverty

• Child Poverty in the United States
• How Child Poverty Affects Class Work
• Inside The Americas - Child Poverty in the US

Homelessness

• What Happens When Cities Make Homelessness a Crime
• Homelessness in America

• What Rights Do Homeless Have?
• Homelessness in Orange County Learning Cluster  
• There's a homelessness epidemic in Los Angeles County
• The Fight to House Hollywood's Sickest Homeless

• Family Homelessness in America
• Homeless Children and Homeless Families and Children
• Homelessness

Digital Divide

• How poor internet access is holding rural America back

Poverty Consequences

• Stress Over Poverty Can Lower IQ, Study Suggests
• How Poverty Can Follow Children Into Adulthood
• Work & Happiness: The Human Cost of Welfare (PBS)

Public Policies

•  What We’re Getting Wrong in the Fight to End Hunger

• What the US gets wrong about minimum wage

• Why the U.S. Should Provide Universal Basic Income (The Atlantic)

• This Video Perfectly Captures Why Universal Basic Income Will Change The World (Science as Fact)

History

• The story of American poverty, as told by one Alabama county

Documentaries

• The Line: Poverty in America