Essay On Middle Class Inequality

sually, when one belongs to the middle class it’s subjective to the place of inhabitance. In my case I’d say I’ve experienced fifty-shades of middle class inequality. It was recorded that between 1979-2007 the “median family income (in U.S.) rose by 35 percent, while incomes for those at the 99th percentile rose by 278 percent” . Consequently, this extent of economic inequality has applied pressures, set boundaries and limited the opportunities available to me. This in turn has impacted my childhood, schooling and career decision.

My parents compromised on a lot of things: vacations, leisure activities, housing choices etc. due to their financial situation. But, there was one thing they always tried to give me the best of and that was education. I always lived in an apartment, never a house, as my parents were not comfortable taking an enormous loan to buy a house in a good school district. I started off my schooling going to a public school but later my parents sent me to some of the best private schools. However, in private schools, many students had high-income parents so there were divides between the different groups. I could not take after school curricula because classes were too expensive. I opted out of any school fieldtrips to foreign countries …show more content…
Though they tried their best to spend time with me, their jobs demanded them to work long hours just for a decent pay. The “Center of American Progress” deduces that this is the case for most of the working middle-class. During my childhood my parents frequently relocated in search of a better job thus a better life. I have moved several times over five different countries. Each time I moved, I experienced different cultures, different social hierarchies, language barriers and various educational systems. All of which stemmed from the fact that economic inequality has left the middle-class in unending search for better