ACTIVITY: Dollar Street Project

Has globalization contributed to economic equality? Or has it created more inequality? Explore this question through the impact of income on families around the world.

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The Dollar Street website

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Income can often tell you more about how people live than location can. Using the website Dollar Street, you are given a way to visualize how other people around the world live. This will help you determine whether the world is flat or spiky. In other words, has globalization leveled the economic playing field, or has it created more inequality? You will consider this question about today’s world, using pictures from around the world to help you draw conclusions.

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