Background

The book reading about Public Policy and the Class System proposes and exemplifies through historical examples that public policy strongly affects the class system in the United States as in other countries. In particular, the additional reading Top Heavy: Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done about It posits and demonstrates that tax policy decisively impacts the class system by impacting wealth inequality in the United States. Similarly, the two video lessons suggest that public and social policy has important effects on the class system in the United States.

Discussion Question

Argue and demonstrate through examples whether and how public policy affects the class system in the United States, including your own state?