Income inequality not only affects education availability, but it can also affect job opportunities. For example, in the article The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle-Class the author states that, “Thanks to factory closings and other economic factors, the country now has 120.8 million adults living in middle-income households.” So this unequal distribution of wealth is causing certain companies and factories to close due to the fact that they cannot afford to pay their employees
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Talking about a topic comes at ease when the issue at hand affects the individual. Many people have talked about the topic of inequality and done much research on it, but many of them just are not passionate enough to get into people's skin. Nevertheless there is an individual by the name of Barbara Ehrenreich who has covered the topic of inequality pretty in depth. Mrs Ehrenreich studied theoretical physics at Reed College and earned a Phd in cell biology from the Rockefeller University, in addition
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The disparity and inequality that we face today, stems from the lack of fundamental resources for the growth of a civilization. Through these means, the lack of these fundamental resources, stems from the disparity in food resources. This is one of the main causes of inequality and disparity, which stemmed from the differences in food supply and resource. The differences between the Wheat consumed in the fertile crescent, and the Sago in Papua New Guinea, stemmed primarily from climate and geography
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Poverty in America America is considered the wealthiest nation, yet as of 2013, 14.5% (about 45.3 million) of Americans are in poverty. The government provides distinctive programs to help people living in poverty with welfare and link cards, but unemployment, foreclosures and unexpected emergencies do arise. Seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income families all struggle to get by day-to-day. In this essay, it will be discussed who are in serious poverty, how they are affected and ways to
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In the book, Unequal Democracy author Larry M. Bartels argues that the mass public in the United States is apathetic about economic inequality. Low-income citizens are more concerned about the rich running the country, which threatens egalitarian values. The wealthy are not paying their fair share of taxes, they receive better treatment in court, and the law favors them the majority of the time. To make things worse they also receive better political representation when it comes to dealing with social
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the economic gap to enlarge, it violates the individual’s rights to equality. Absence of a representative government would threaten all human rights because there would be no establishment for equality. This is exactly what will happen if income inequality is to take over. The rich citizens will make it to where the poor’s voice will be unheard. It is not fair to have a government where more money means more power, so in order for the government to protect equality; they must reduce the income gap
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Globalization and Income Inequality Is globalization the cause of income inequality? The effects of globalization is a highly debated topic with the pro-globalists claiming that globalization encourages economic growth while the anti-globalists arguing that globalization is responsible for increasing income disparity (International Monetary Fund, 2007). According to a 2011 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEDC) report, income inequality has widen over the two decades with
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Income Inequality in America is a problem that’s been going on for decades, and many feel that it hardly exists, the many people that feel that way are highly uneducated, and seem to not really care about this tremendous problem that in one’s eyes really has no end in the near future, in fact it has been gradually rising and one feels that it’s just not fair. Unfortunately, there’s not much that can be done, only of course if the poor class of people decide to actually educate themselves and get
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diffuse group of activists began a loosely organized protest called Occupy Wall Street, camping out in Zuccotti Park, a privately owned park in New York’s financial district. The protest was to stand against corporate and government greed, social inequality and the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process. The idea was to camp out for weeks or even months to replicate the kind, if not the scale, of protests that had erupted earlier in 2011 in Tunisia
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than non-union workers in the same field of work. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) provided a springboard for a joint voice that was loud enough for some to hear. Many that were out of work and many that needed to speak up band together to focus on this inequality. Moral that was once low, soon increased as the movement took form. The movement had some setbacks a few months after it started which included protestors being faced with arrest. Looking from the outside into the movement, one would wonder if
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