Income inequality in the United States

In my labor studies class we are learning about what it means to be middle class in the United States. I will be analyzing on how three different articles differ and also compare on this topic of the middle class. I will go in depth on how the articles talk about this topic and what type of methods they use. I will see if these articles use pictures or if they use special fonts. I also want to see if the articles do anything special to make one of these articles stand out from the other ones.…

On the flip side, technology could help fight income inequality as well. With the greater use of technology, it can make it easier to live in a smaller home and rent objects at time when you want them through the Internet. This would allow lower income workers to live closer to the city where the rent is high and might able to get a higher paying job. In addition, as computer human interfaces become more user friendly (with voice control, touch screens technology), in the future it might rise…

In this land full of fast food chain growing, where obesity, as well as the heart attack rate, keep on increasing, yet somewhere in the dark, a growling sound from the empty stomach are taking over the lives of those unfortunates. As the world’s number one nation, foreigners think America would never have starvation as a problem. Little did they know about the in fact that hunger is threatening the life of one in every seven Americans daily, from infants to seniors. Luckily, the solution to…

(Randolph). It involves stretching the urban boundaries further and further, thus consuming precious farm land and many other types of land use (Randolph). This realization of a population and space crisis is what has driven only a few cities in the United States (US) to adopt a regional city planning approach. Portland, Oregon is one of the few areas in the US that has adopted this approach (CSIRP). In 1990, Portland’s view of growing populations and cities changes and they began to realize…

Tarrytown is a quaint little village in the heart of New York that was established in 1645. Tarrytown is made up of many demographics. There are 11,299 people living in Tarrytown. According to the website areavibes “the median age in Tarrytown is 12% higher than New York. Also, the male/female ratio is 8 to 1. 67% people in Tarrytown speak English while 16% speak Spanish.” (p.1). Tarrytown is made up of many different races. Caucasians, African Americans, and Asians make up majority of the…

Montana, much more to live in! Why? It is just a small town with more or less 1,500 residents, which means that you can relatively live in peace and yet make friends with most of the locals. They also have great scores when it comes to income as the median household income is around $52,350! Okay, that’s high enough to belong to the top 5 of this category. Moreover, it also has a 63%…

differences indicate a lack of social control between the two neighborhoods because there are less people per home, less people helping. It also shows there is more instability, due to the greater percentage of female-headed households. Sampson et al. state that “we view neighborhood efficacy as existing relative to the tasks of supervising children and maintaining public order (Sampson et. al, p920, 1997).” This study…

perpetuates the ideology of the American Dream (Leondar-Wright & Yeskel, 2007). The American Dream is that anyone can attain enough income to own a home and secure a future for their family if they work hard, (2007) sacrifice, and persevere (Mantsios, 2013). Americans “are trained to identify up the class spectrum and fantasize about getting there” (Collins, Yeskel, & United for a Fair Economy and Class Action, 2013, p. 164). Although there is some class fluidity over the lifetime of many…

and power relationship within society. Marx’s theory states that, Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat (Walters, 2015). Moreover, his philosophies…

autonomy over their health choices or do environmental and situational factors collectively act as a grand puppeteer in manipulating our choices? The arguments for both sides are met with personal baggage because to declare one side over the other is to state we as individuals are responsible for our health mistakes or admit that we are simply products of our environment, holding no autonomy over our behaviors. Nonetheless, research done throughout the 21st century sheds insight to the conflict…