ECN201 
Assignment: Inequality

You are to answer one of the following questions. 

1. Now let's look at what we do not see too often in the media, a part of our society that is far removed from our day-to-day lives. In this assignment you are to read "Still Separate, Still Unequal" (Sakai Online Readings) and write a brief essay describing your reaction to the article and how you might relate it to the readings, your experiences, and how you feel about the level playing field? Is the playing field level, why is this important, and how might this article be different if it were written about life in Europe?

2. Here is another perspective on a part of our society that is far removed from our day-to-day lives. In this assignment you are to read "Nickel and Dimed" (Sakai Online Readings) and write a brief essay describing your reaction to the article and how you might relate it to the readings, your experiences, and your perspective on the minimum wage?

3. Here is another perspective on a part of our society that is far removed from our day-to-day lives. In this assignment you are to read Lind's "Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation?" (Sakai Online Readings) and write a brief essay describing your reaction to the article and tell me what you think the answer is to the question?   

4. Check out The State of Working America  where you will find a number of downloadable tables and graphs on a wide array of measures of the state of working America, and your job is to find two that surprised you, angered you, captured some views you had about the state of the economy, confirmed some of what you read in the text, or you simply think are worth discussing - and then write up a brief report describing what you saw in the data.