America’s Forgotten Working Class
A TED talk featuring J.D. Vance, who grew up in a small, poor city in Ohio, where he witnessed many of the... Read More
Another Day in Paradise
A music video by Phil Collins on the social/economic disparities in society. Read more.
Beware Fellow Plutocrats, the Pitchforks Are Coming
A TED talk featuring Nick Hanauer, a wealthy, unapologetic capitalist, who says that growing inequality is about to push society into conditions... Read More
CCHD: Living Our Faith, Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
An overview of the work of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Read more.
Fed Up with the Fed: Why the Federal Reserve Needs Reform
Discusses how the Federal Reserve is supposed to represent the public interest, not just bankers and billionaires. Click here for more information.
How Architectural Innovations Migrate Across Borders
A TED talk featuring architect Teddy Cruz, who points out that as the world’s cities undergo explosive growth, inequality is intensifying and... Read More
How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
A TED talk featuring Richard Wilkinson who charts the hard data on economic inequality and shows what gets worse when rich and... Read More
How to Ignite Social Change
A brief introduction to a class taught by Robert Reich regarding wealth distribution in the United States and the three elements that... Read More
Human Bar Graph
This 6 minute video from the Network Lobby, takes a look at what has happened to income inequality in the past few... Read More
Justice for the Poor
An introduction to the six-session DVD, designed for use with the Justice for the Poor Participant’s Guide from Jim Wallis and Sojourners.... Read More
Left Behind America
A documentary from FRONTLINE and ProPublica that reports on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once-booming city where nearly... Read More
Let’s Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor
A short animation that shows why many Americans associate poverty with personal failure and how this belief affects how they address poverty... Read More
Portrait of a Radical: The Jesus Movement
A resource from the Center of Action and Contemplation, that has three provocative theologians (Richard Rohr, Huston Smith and Allen Dwight Callahan)... Read More
Poverty USA Tour: America’s Forgotten State
Explores the difficulties encountered in trying to provide for a family’s well-being when living below the poverty line. Click here for more... Read More
See How the Rest of the World Lives, Organized by Income
A TED Talk featuring Anna Rosling Rönnlund, who using the power of data visualization, sent photographers to 264 homes in 50 countries... Read More
Social Experiments to Fight Poverty
A TED talk featuring Esther Duflo,who says that alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and that a lack of data on... Read More
The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity
A TED talk featuring historian Niall Ferguson, who suggests half a dozen big ideas or “apps” from Western culture — that promote... Read More
The Beatitudes
A music video from the Beatitude Society, showing people living the Beatitudes today. Read more.
The Economic Injustice of Plastic
A TED Talk by Van Jones, shows how a throwaway culture hits poor people and poor countries “first and worst,” with consequences... Read More
The End of Poverty?
Explains how today’s financial crisis is a consequence of unchallenged policies of wealthy countries taking advantage of poor, developing countries that have... Read More
The Great American Lie
A documentary film that examines how a US value system built on the extreme masculine ideals of money, power, and control has... Read More
The Line: Poverty in America, It’s Not What You Think
A documentary produced by Sojourners that shows the truth about poverty in America. Tells the stories of people across the country living... Read More
The True Cost
A documentary that tells the story about clothing, the people who make it and the impact it’s having. Filmed in countries around... Read More
This Is What Inequality Looks Like
A 14 minute TED talk, featuring photographer and filmmaker Johnny Miller. He discusses his project “Unequal Scenes,” which explores inequality in his... Read More
Urban Entry
This Mile High Ministries series offers contemporary insights into the complex issues of poverty that communities are facing all around the country.... Read More
We Need Money for Aid, So Let’s Print It
A TED talk featuring Michael Metcalfe, who suggests the central banks of the United States, United Kingdom and Japan print money to... Read More
Wealth Inequality in America
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the... Read More
What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen of the World?
A TED Talk with Hugh Evans discussing a movement that mobilizes “global citizens,” people who self-identify first and foremost not as members... Read More
What if the Common Good Was the Goal of the Economy?
A 22 minute TED Talk, featuring Christian Felber who proposes an alternative to the sometimes inhumane, instable and unsustainable – ruling economic... Read More
Why Buses Represent Democracy in Action
TED Talk by Enrique Penalosa, who makes the case that an advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars,... Read More
Why Governments Should Prioritize Well-Being
A TED Talk featuring First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, who explains the far-reaching implications of a “well-being economy” — which places... Read More
Why It’s Expensive To Be Poor
A TED Talk, featuring Don Ceder, who shares some of his personal experiences and points out that a lot of money is... Read More
Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice
A TED Talk featuring Mary Bassett who makes the case that structural inequities embedded in the world’s political and economic organizations, make... Read More
Winds of Change
An example of the work of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), where they assess the needs of the Lakota people... Read More
Wiring a Web for Global Good
A TED talk featuring former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who says that the world is at a unique moment in history,... Read More