Web Resources

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

Economic Crisis and Market Upheavals

2. Exercise 7.2: How Unequal Is Wealth Distribution in the United States—and Why?

Wealth Inequality in America

3. Exercise 7.4: Food Banks and Hunger in America

Feeding America

4. Exercise 7.5: America: Who Votes?

America Goes to the Polls
They Don’t Really Want Us to Vote
Voting Laws Roundup 2017

5. Exercise 7.6: The Influence of Money on State Politics

Followthemoney.org

6. Exercise 7.8: Fair Trade on Your Campus

Fair Trade-The Story
Fair Trade Campaigns

7. Exercise 7.9: Voting Rights

Voting Rights (Registration and Requirements)

8. Exercise 7.10: Power and the Control of Seeds

Seeds of Freedom
Reclaiming Our Hearts and Home
Seeds and Genetic Diversity
Just Label It

9. Exercise 7.11: Corporations Are People?

The Story of Citizens United v. FEC
Timeline on the Corporate Personhood

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