Today in the United States, many citizens are blind to the wealth distribution within the country. Sociologists have recently become much more interested and concerned in further research on how wealth is distributed among Americans and if that wealth was more equally distributed how differently our economy would function. This inequality found within the United State’s wealth may be problematic because there is a very small percentage of people that hold such a large percentage of the nation’s wealth and such a large proportion of people that are right at or even below the poverty line. The problem of how to better distribute this wealth is often debated by many. One social effect that is causing this inequality could be that the wealthy are not putting their money back into the economy but rather keeping the money among the wealthy. This social problem would effect not only at the individual …show more content…
Ehenreich puts her currently life on pause and takes up the life of someone living strictly off of minimum wage pay. Many people have debated that someone could live off of only minimum wage if they worked hard enough and Ehenreich desired to test that theory. She uncovered that it was really difficult to live that life, emotionally and physically. Ehenreich did what she could to cut all unnecessary expenses out of her life and by doing so she finds that it there were still some things that she could not cut out. She discovered that housing was very difficult to find at a decent price in relevance to location of work. I have also found that this is very true through personal experiences. My grandmother lives on a very tight budget and when helping her to find a place to live, my family really struggled. There are many factors that take place when deciding to live and hidden costs such as utilities, transportation, and even having an initial deposit to put