Household income in the United States

earn what they deserve based on their career and talents. If you aren’t making enough, you should try harder. He views money not as a desire, but a byproduct of work. But what are the implications of this viewpoint for the poor? Many people in lower income brackets also work hard for their paychecks, but are still unable to earn the money and benefits to lead a comfortable lifestyle. Tyler Cowen and Matthew Desmond tackle the conservative and the liberal views of wealth inequality in their…

the work force sooner. Why are fewer people attending college? The New York Times describes that college attendance throughout the United States dropped by nearly five-hundred thousand this last year (Lehren and Martin). The truth is that not all people have the same advantages, and when trying to enroll at college, those disadvantages show more than ever. A lot of this falls into the category of price discrimination. Price discrimination is the practice of selling the same good or service at…

connotation, with elements such as unskilled labor by very young children in very poor conditions. This is true to a certain extent, the labor laws in lesser developed countries are not very child favorable and are different than those in the United States of America. The global number of children in child labour has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children ( International Labor Organization). In the case of Pakistan, 3.3 million children(between the ages of 5…

The Summer Food Service Program was developed in the United States in to create healthy nutritionally balanced meals mainly for students 18 years old and younger coming from low-income households during the summer months when the School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program are not in session. If a student is over the age of 18, they can only participate if they have some sort of physical and/or mental disability that is keeping them within the school district. The Summer Food…

The federal income tax that has been used in the U.S. for most of the twenty-first century has been in place ever since 1913. Today, the sources of federal tax revenue from taxes are collected from individual income taxes, Social Security and other payroll taxes, corporate income taxes, excise taxes, and estate and gift taxes. Over time politicians and scholars have suggested ideas of switching to consumption based means of taxation many times but it hasn’t been well supported until the past…

The United States is known to be one of the richest countries in the world, yet the struggles of poverty affect many of our citizens. This issue has become very controversial, as everyone has their own opinions on the topic. Debates have been made on whether it is an economic or cultural problem. Many people believe that we should aid the poor to help them rise above the poverty level, but many are convinced that those who are poverty-stricken became that way on their own and should not receive…

Equal Opportunity for Low-Income Students Equality - what does it truly mean? To most people, the thought of social equality raises questions mainly dealing with race and gender. For instance, a popular issue today is the wage gap; a statistical estimation that states a woman is paid 79 percent of what a man is paid for performing the same job with the same credentials (aauw). A matter like this can certainly be solved to a certain extent by policy with enough reinforcement and push; however,…

Presidential elections, racial tensions in the United States have been anything but united. Despite the many accomplishment made by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, African Americans are still finding that equality is still an obstacle, especially in the area of economic progress. Slogans like “Make America Great Again” rang throughout Trump’s political campaign, and according to Michael Reigh, a professor of Political…

based on income and economic interests during World War One. Throughout the twentieth century, especially during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, blacks still continued to find a way to integrate in the suburbanized communities, but their effort continued to raise concern for segregation. A difference in income is evidence towards these separated societies of race. In a recent set of collective data from 2014, the Census Bureau report on income can support these differences with income…

tablets. They have watched “joking around” become a new term, bullying. Everything changes. Sometimes faster than intended to. Sometimes for the worst instead of the better. One trend that continues to grow and become more common is single parent household. Fifty years ago, it was very uncommon to see parents get divorced. It was not something to discuss and it certainly wasn’t published in magazines or talked about on television. It parents were divorced in the 1960’s, it was taken as a…