Title: Poverty and Unemployment: Exploring the Connections | Learning for Justice
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Poverty and Unemployment: Exploring the Connections
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Content: To be sure, not everyone who is unemployed lives in poverty, but in this lesson you will look at how unemployment and underemployment often contribute to poverty. Poverty and unemployment do not affect everyone equally. People of color suffer from both unemployment and poverty disproportionately. In this lesson you will begin to question why—and in subsequent lessons you will delve more deeply into that question. 1. To begin your exploration of unemployment in the United States, you’re going to play a game of musical chairs. ( Note: Have students set up chairs in a circle. Make sure that there are two fewer chairs than there are people. Bring music to play for the game.)