US Census Bureau
U.s. Census Bureau: Income Inequality
This U.S. Census Bureau site is a brief look at U.S. Income Inequality and includes links to full reports and census data explaining this issue. It is a good site for the serious student.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Inequality
Practice what you've learned about the sources of income inequality, using the Gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality, and interpreting the Gini coefficient.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Income Distribution
This video teaches the concept of Income Distribution. Income distribution refers to how the total income earned ends up divided over members of the economy. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for related lesson plans.
Other
Global Policy Forum: Inequality of Wealth
Inequality of wealth in both the U.S. and world is a controversial topic. This site from the Global Policy Forum contains a series of articles that address this topic. Great for student research.
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Inequality.org
This site is dedicated to teaching people about the potential problems with an increasingly unequal distribution of income. The site exposes greed and excess, and includes a variety of links.
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Miniature Earth: Comparative Demographics Worldwide
Miniature Earth reduces the world's population to 100 to underscore the dramatic differences in wealth, age, faith, education, environment, and health among people who live on this planet. An excellent apply-what-you-know site for...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Poverty in America [Pdf]
Discover the numbers behind poverty in America in the 1950s. Read about those who were in poverty, where they lived, and find out if things have improved over the decades. [pdf]
Digital History
Digital History: Prosperity: Fact or Myth [Pdf]
Find the reasons for the booming economy in the United States in the 1920s. Can the seeds for the Great Depression be seen in the fruit of the economy? [pdf]
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Great Depression
Read a brief overview of the causes of the Great Depression. See that there were several reasons which fed on each other to plunge the country into economic chaos.
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Water: The Foundation of All Sustainable Development [Pdf]
This PDF chart shows income inequality in relation to access to clean and safe drinking water.
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National Center for Law and Economic Justice
A wealth of information on economic justice in the United States.