Inequality In The United States

There is a problem in society that everyone must come to terms with. Inequality. Inequality is a problem that can be solved in two main ways using government. The government can give everyone equal opportunity, or they can give everyone equal reward. One major inequality that is happening in society today is inequality in education, and solving this inequality is hard, maybe even impossible, because even if everyone was given the same opportunity to go to a good school, some wouldn’t work as hard and then would be less educated then someone who worked hard. It also wouldn’t work by giving everyone the same degree, because some people would deserve it and others wouldn’t. Inequality in education is an inequality that is unfair, and if …show more content…
Everyone should have an equal opportunity to go to a college. The way the government can do this is to subsidize or even pay for a person who cannot pay for themselves to go to college. A program like that is already put in place, and is the FAFSA, or the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. People who apply for this can receive help from the government in order to go to school. Some people would say that this isn’t fair, because the government gives more money to kids who have less money, and gives less money to kids who are more able to pay for college. While they are correct when they say that the government helping out the people who aren’t as well off is unfair because those kids are getting more money. What makes this system fair is that everyone is getting an equal chance to go to a college and get a higher …show more content…
Government intervention to try and make colleges equal will not nor will ever work. In order to make all colleges equal you would have to deprive a lot of people from going to a college that is best for them. Smarter people going to a lesser school would find it too easy and wouldn’t learn, and less intelligent people going to a school they can’t handle would find it to be too much of a load put on their shoulders and they wouldn’t be able to do it. It wouldn’t work also because of the teachers. The same person cannot teach the exact same way as another teacher, it will not work because teachers are different. This will cause more inequality because if two teachers teaching the exact same thing teach it to a student, the student might understand it from one but not the