May 11-15

Monday - We watched the movie Planet In Peril.

Tuesday - We read a couple of articles and watched a video on the worst place in the US for Income Inequality.

Income Inequality

  • Top 1% - $380,354
  • Top 5% - $159,619
  • Top 10% - $113,799
  • Top 25% - $ 
  • Top 50% - $

Wednesday - We read a couple of more articles and watched Planet In Peril.

Notes from Video

  • Lake Providence separates poor and rich
  • One side 68,000 per year
  • Other side about 15,000 per year
  • Lot of lower class
  • Lot of rich
  • Little middle class
  • Lot of stores closing down
  • Either you own land or not
  • Goes back to civil war
  • No scholarship opportunities
  • Social factos
    • Gangs
    • Guns
    • Drug 
  • Inherited wealth 
  • Inherited poverty

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/30/opinion/sutter-class-race-fast-food/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/opinion/sutter-solutions-income-inequality/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Thursday - We watched Planet In Peril today.

Friday - Mr. Bruns was gone so we finished watching Planet in Peril today.

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