Books to reference: Class Matters by The New York Times and Bill Keller The Outsiders by Howard S Becker Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubar Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenrich The Working Poor by David K Shipler The Moral Measure of the Economy by Collin and Wright Inequality Matters by Moyers, Lardner and Smith Presenation topics to reference: Education Inequality (Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol) The Wal-Mart Effect (on the poor) Health Care in America Use at least 2 quotes from each of those books and just do some light research for the "presentations". Overall the sentiment of the paper should be that despite what we think of our "land of the free" there are people who are virtual slaves to multiple minimum wage jobs, lack of health and child care, and a monster called capitalism (aka Wal-mart effect) that is creating a larger and large gap between the rich and the poor.