Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

• Graph: An Uneven Recovery
• Graph: Ten-Year Changes in Overall Mean Family Income

Sociologists in Action: Adrian Chevraux-Fitzhugh

• Move to Amend
• Corporate Personhood

Exercise 7.1 Pressures Facing the U.S. and World Economies Today

• The New York Times’ “Economic Crisis and Market Upheavals”

Exercise 7.2 How Unequal is Wealth Distribution in the U.S.- and Why?

• Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality

Exercise 7.4 Soup Kitchens and Hunger in America

• Extra Credit: Go to the website for Feeding America

Exercise 7.5 America: Who Votes?

• Change to Voter Turnout

Exercise 7.6 The Influence of Money on State Politics

• Go to http://www.followthemoney.org

Exercise 7.8 Fair Trade on Your Campus

• Watch Fair Trade - The Story and go to The Fair Trade Towns Campaign website

Exercise 7.9 Voting Rights

• Registration and Requirements

Exercise 7.11 Power and Control of Seeds

• “Seeds of Freedom”
• Navdanya
•  “Seeds and Genetic Diversity”
• “Just Label It”

Suggestions for Specific Action:

• Rock the Vote
• United for a Fair Economy
• “Uganda Fights Stigma and Poverty”
• Uganda Women’s Cancer Support Organization
• Money, Money, Money
• “Where Have All the Voters Gone?”
• Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)