“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat.” (Loewen, 204) These powerful words spoken by Will Rogers produce an extremely valid question, yet many teens today are not taught the answer. In James W. Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me” it is explained that America is not the land of opportunity. Most recent labor history such as during the late twentieth century is not mentioned in textbooks. This is an effort to maintain the impression that America has always been a land of upward social mobility. It is no secret that textbooks emphasize pieces of history in the favor of the wealthy. However, this is only done while downplaying bills which strengthen the wealthy at the poor’s expense. In the migrating