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In article “The Racial Wealth Gap: Why A Typical White Household Has 16 Times The Wealth of A Black One” by Laura Shin, she claims that the wealth and income divide is happening along racial lines. In 2011, the median white household had $111,146 in wealth when the median black household…

Eliminating the achievement gap has also become a common topic in society. The Boston Globe newspaper has an article by Martin Scanlan and Rebecca Lowenhaupt, professors at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, that considered the opportunity gap and how it coincides with the achievement gap. Their view is that if we focus on resolving the opportunity gap issue, and the achievement gap will fix itself. They say, “We can build educational equity in our school communities by turning…

making seventy-seven cents to the male dollar. This may not seem like a huge difference but over the course of a woman’s career that is a loss of $1.2 million dollars (Equal Pay Task Force, 3). The Gender Wage Gap is an issues that should be a priority to our nation. Where did the gender wage gap even come from? Think back to the colonial times when our nation was first settled. This…

In the article “Bridge That Gap” by Chegg it breaks down the different viewpoints that college graduates and hiring managers have on graduates being able to find a job. The many skills college graduates believe they need in order to find a job aren’t as important to the hiring managers. I believe this article has helped me in knowing what I need to do to make my application stick out above everyone else’s. The first part of this article that interests me is the Student Skill Index. The second…

Most health care standards are produced by this method. AN example is the Health Level 7 (HL7) standard for clinical-data interchange (CH 7 pg 215) To improve upon previous successful standards, gap standards must be implemented. These gap standards have no champion but are necessary for completeness of an interoperable data exchange network. The need for these standards is not as obvious as for the primary standards, people are less likely to volunteer to do work…

The processes for addressing skill gaps are to “define the skills and knowledge required to complete a task and then comparing a person’s current level to that requirement” (Thomas, 2009). When gaps have been determined an action plan to fix, the situation is put into play. Skill gaps that require action plans are developed from lack of education and training or as simple as a job change. The first step of mending skill gaps is identifying the business goal. Identifying the business goals…

Women Get a Bad Shot: The Gender Wage Gap in the Medical Field Up to this point in time, our world has made extraordinary change. We’ve progressed from sticks and stones as tools to the fastest working technology humankind has ever faced. The world has advanced right before our eyes, yet many important matters go neglected by our very own eyes. The meaning of the word equality is tarnished; what many believe to be equality isn’t what equality truly is. We as the human population currently face…

Even though America is a country known for it’s vast opportunities, there remains a disparity between the performance in school between minority and white students. This prominent issue in our country is known as the Education Achievement gap. The achievement gap is defined by the National Education Association as the “differences between the test scores of minority and/or low-income students and the test scores of their White and Asian peers.” This is shown in many ways, such as the amount of…

The economic class gap in recent years has widened drastically as the rich have become richer and the middle and disadvantaged classes have stagnated in growth. In a time when money fuels the world, and education is the safest path to a well paying job, school has become more essential to the average American. Although students are all equally likely to achieve what they apply themselves to, racism and economic stereotyping has often hindered their passions from showing. To combat this, policy…

These luxury units have brought up the average rent rates in Williamsburg and therefore made it easier for landlords to increase rents even on units that are not considered to be luxury. This increase in rents can be explained by Neil Smith’s rent gap theory, which focuses on how landlord and investors will…