Objective
- Explain the core ideas of socialism
- Evaluate socialist criticism of the capitalist system
Agenda
- Warmup #21 - Take a guess at the following questions
- Go to the middle table and get ten chips from the tin. We'll use them shortly.
- What percentage of their income do the wealthiest people in the US have to pay in federal income tax today?
- Do you think that this number (top tax bracket) has overall increased or decreased since the 1940s in the USA?
- How much more money does the average CEO make than the average worker in the US today?
- Wealth Distribution in the USA - Chip Activity
- Mother Jones Article - It's The Inequality, Stupid
- Socialism Notes & Discussion
- Video Clips (Worst Jobs - Rat Catcher, Workhouse, Tanner)
- CNN Student News
