Wealth Inequality In Your Community

Wealth Inequality In Your Community

• Review this week’s Learning Resources on wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap. Pay close attention to the ways in which race, ethnicity, and gender affect wealth potential.
• Research your own community for unemployment rate, average family income, poverty rate, and homeless population 

Post a response in which you:

Report on the unemployment rate, average family income, poverty rate, and homeless population in your community. How does each of these numbers compare to the national average?

• Explain how the Learning Resources have helped you see how some races, ethnicities, and genders are more impacted by wealth inequality than others.
  • Why do these disparities exist? What are the structural or policy barriers that helped to create them?
• Explain the extent to which you have experienced wealth inequality and how this may inform your work as an HSPP.

Resources to use for this assignment:

https://youtu.be/5pUhViiNtxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

https://youtu.be/9diZJks95Ko

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/

I live in a town called Southaven MS. 

Please use the resources in this assignment.