Introduction to series analyzing income and wealth trends in the US
About this video
Sal Khan introduces a series of videos analyzing New York Times charts on US trends in wealth, income and income inequality. Khan Academy's goal is to give extra context and ways to analyze the data, not to push an opinion, so viewers can form their own judgments on an important debate.
You'll be able to
- describe what the upcoming video series will analyze.
- explain that the goal is to help me form my own judgments from data, not to adopt someone else's view.
Key words
- Income inequality
- How unevenly income is spread across the people in a country.
- Wealth
- The total value of what a person owns, as opposed to what they earn each year.
- Distribution
- How something, like income, is divided among different groups of people.
Transcript
- Sal Khan here from Khan Academy. What you're seeing over the next few videos are analyses of charts and data that are put together by "The New York Times" around trends in wealth, income, and income inequality. Our goal here is to give you extra context, extra ways to analyze the data, maybe a lens that might not be obvious when you first look at some of these graphs.
Now all of us here at Khan Academy, our goal, we're a not-for-profit with a mission of providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere, is to provide the supports so that you can look at the data and come up with your own judgments. Our goal is not to project any opinion or any view onto you, but to give you the tools you need to form your own beliefs or your own analyses.
So take a look at these videos. Hopefully, they will surface insights on some of the data, some of the visualizations that might not have been obvious otherwise, and they inform all of us on a very important debate in the world and especially in this country around how have incomes trended, how has the distribution changed over time, and where might we be going and for what reasons.
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