AWOL - Summarizing Week's Lessons On Poverty & Wealth in the US

Please summarize - in 1-3 paragraphs - your understanding of the week's lessons on poverty and wealth in the U.S. Musical chairs, distribution of wealth, and musical chairs variation 2 should be addressed.

Please follow your summary with 1-3 paragraph perspective on poverty and wealth in the U.S. Is it poor peoples' own fault that they're poor - what do you make of the argument that its a lack of chairs, more than a lack of effort, that makes people lose musical chairs?