Income in the United States

The top 1% of family-earned incomes made 17% of AGI (Adjusted Gross Incomes) in the country; however, they also paid 37% of federal income taxes in 2009 (Dubay). The upper class should not have to pay more taxes than they already do because they already pay far more than their share. They should not be punished for working hard and receiving a significant amount of money. If everyone had the same amount of money, there would be no incentive for individuals to work, to save, and to invest to…

something to provide to their members, the fact that in a country like the United States, which is a very capitalist country. Many of the citizen incomes aren’t supportive enough to maintain a house and for the job they do. The market of food chains like McDonalds, Burger king, Dunking Donuts, and many more have a very demanding population, this one of the primary causes that diabetes is a great health problem in United States. Americans basically spend a lot of money of coffee, donuts, and…

by the Pew Research Center, more than 1.5 million hourly workers in the United States earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour (DeSilver). A full-time worker making the federal minimum wage earns $15,080 per year, an annual income that sits below the federal poverty level of $16,020 for a family of two. While there are twenty-nine states that have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage, there are twenty-one states at or below the federal minimum wage. Although the federal minimum…

do not realize that the wellbeing and actions of others will affect them and even their families and children in the future. Societies in the United States are key in becoming a united nation in which everyone can thrive and achieve at the best of their ability. Food insecurity along with income deficiencies are detrimental to the citizens of the United States both directly and indirectly. In the documentary Inequality for All released in 2013, we gain insight in order to understand the…

more inequality and by failing to reduce poverty. The environment has also faced a negative impact because many developed countries are still heavily reliant on fossil-fuels and their production of greenhouse gases keeps rising. Additionally, the United States outsources much of its industrial sector to China whose population is quickly growing which has led to large concentrated areas of pollution emission. When countries globalized their economy and expected their poverty to become reduced,…

the Civil Rights Movement. If he were to write a book named Black Boy about an African American boy growing up in the United States today, he will write about the racial significance of Barack Obama’s election, comparing the…

In the United States, the criminal justice system has become an industry that profits off of criminalizing the poor; a practice that perpetuates and worsens the cycle of poverty rather than promote justice as it is meant to do. With the highest Gini rate of inequality compared to all western countries and a record of income inequality last seen a year before The Great Depression, it is apparent that the United States is facing a critical problem with poverty. However, rather than fortify the…

The unfortunate news is that “only 21 states in the US require students to attend high school until they are 18 or earn a diploma”, which leaves the other 29 states with students who drop out at a young and naive age where they cannot comprehend how much damage that the decision they are making is going to cause them in the long run (DoSomething.org…

almost every major United States metropolitan area, students of color are much more likely than whites to attend public schools by high concentrations of poverty, shows the analysis of federal data. In a wide range of cities all across the nation, the numbers shown in this analysis point to a massive racial imbalance in exposure to concentrated poverty. For example, in St. Louis, 92 percent of black students attend schools where most of their classmates qualify as poor or low-income, but only 27…

From a foreigner’s perspective, America coincides with freedom, liberty, equality happiness, and prosperity. In reality, America, a diverse nation of immigrants, is divided by race, economic class, and gender. In the United States, many individuals identify themselves through their race and heritage, yet the assumption of the superiority of one race has impacted America severely. African Americans have been segregated by the caucasian Americans since the earliest stage as they were captured by…