Income inequality in the United States

social work. As Rhodes & Rhodes (2015), states “Social class is to rank with others in terms of wealth, power, and prestige. This ranking separates people into different groups that experience different opportunities in life and different ways of looking at the world” (pg. 225). With that being said, this reignites the topic of homelessness that I chose for my term paper. It touched on a very important note on how society clearly defines inequality, wealth, and income. Further grabbing my…

With a title like “The Upside of Income Inequality”, the article certainly got the attention it wanted. This article, written by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy, outlined what the rising income inequality means for the United States. They propose that the rising income inequality stems mostly from the increase in the value of education, spiking in the 1980s. They state that this increase in value better helps minorities as women and African Americans are gaining more from college than men/Caucasian…

imagine every person in the United States lining up for a parade similar to that of the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade held annually in New York City. This parade would be a single file line of citizens arranged in accordance with their annual income. The parade would start with those making the least amount followed by those who make more, viz., the lowest earners in front, and the highest earners in back. The parade would be one hour in length. The income of each person is…

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…

Barriers and Oppression The history of the United States have evolve over the years in terms of laws, industrialization and education, however, it is clear that this country has gone several steps back in terms of discrimination, humanities and even racial disparities. According to Golash-Boza (2014) Systemic Racism is defined as "a diverse assortment of racist practices; the unjustly gained economic and political power of whites, the continuing resource inequalities; and the white racism…

Income inequality has become an increasingly talked about problem in America and rightfully so. At the end of 2012 the top one percent of families in the United States accounted for over 20 percent of national income compared to the top one percent accounting for 10 percent of national income in 1970 according to Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez from the London School of Economics. Common sense would suggest that in order to compress this inequality gap, poor people making more money would have…

There are many low income cities and crime rates are widespread across America. One may say that people with low income have nothing to lose when they commit crimes or depressed and desperate to the point that they will commit crimes for the profit of money. Even though crime is committed at all walks of life, one can still pose a question to know if crime is more likely to be committed by people with low income that those with high income. Research Question Does low income increase crime rate…

major focuses in our social and political world. According to research studies, a woman’s wage is only 79 percent of man’s wage; meaning, a woman makes $4 for every $5 that a man makes (“Gender Pay Inequality…”, 2016). On June 10, 1963, the Equal Pay Act was signed by John F. Kennedy (“Gender Pay Inequality…”, 2016). The purpose of this law was to establish equality between men and women in the workforce. Both men and women should receive the same amount of pay for the same amount of work…

a lack of focus in several lenses, particularly the economic. With this lens in mind, and the interest in studying causes, I decided to ask the question, To what extent is economic inequality in the United States impacting the prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease, and what are the major factors that cause such inequalities? In this annotated bibliography,…

cemetery at Gettysburg, which hit every main point in less then two minutes. One line in particular, Lincoln states, “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” (Burns, 2012). Inequality had brought on the civil war, with the issues of slavery and central power which had divided the United States (10 Facts You Should Know About the Civil War, n.d.). In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation…