Income inequality metrics

between urban and rural areas, China remains a very rural economy even after few decades of rapid growth. It could causes about 50.3% of China’s middle-level population continue to live in rural areas. The data of an annual average per capita disposable income of rural residents is 5,900 Yuan. It is less than one-third of the people who are living in urban area. In China, people who working for government usually has a decent salary, they are not worrying about their life at all. Therefore, they…

What is the “true” American Dream? How can everyone achieve the American Dream? In past years, the U.S. has had many views upon the American Dream. Like most people in the United States, many have tried achieving the American Dream, but they do not quite know what it is. In the books that the sophomores were required to read, they showed many views of the American Dream. In Huck Finn, it showed that being free to do whatever was the American Dream. In the Great Gatsby, it showed that money is…

Wealth inequality, or the unequal distribution of wealth, is a heavily debated topic in the United States, a nation that, according to Inequality.org, “exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.” To some, like Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, “we can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both;” to others, wealth equality is a form of socialism. The…

Disparities currently exist in many aspects of America. For example, according to the Latino Hunger Fact Sheet (2014), Hispanics are more likely to be unemployed than non-Hispanic whites. In addition, the median household income for Hispanics is significantly lower than that of non-Hispanic whites. Among Americans, poverty varies by race and gender. Many components related to social injustice may lead to increased rates of poverty and economic injustice. Some theorists blame…

comprehend how where we live makes a difference. Where we live shapes the lives we lead in relation to technology and access to education. In the United States, we are one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, and in many low-income countries there is little to no advancement in technology. This is mostly due to the high importance placed on cultural tradition in many of these countries. They see change or advancement in opposition with their heritage and way of life.…

another but according to the federal government there were all equal.5 This caused tribes to resolve internal conflict and move towards the “agenda of the American government”.5 This is an example of the exclusion of freedom in terms of political inequality. Although these are people living in America, they were not given the right to political…

say” ( Sanders-Phillips, Ph.D, Kathy. “Social Inequality and Racial Discrimination”) or do; therefore, if a parent says something racist, the child could end up being racist at school to the other kids until he or she becomes old enough to realize it is not right. A lot of sports include racial classes among which sports contain the most whites, black, Asians, etc and which race better performs that sport compared to the other races. The racial gap in income has dropped slightly in the last…

When I read these four articles about Marxists,Marxians and Marxish. I learned many things about social inequality. Firstly, let me summarize the arguments that the authors pointed out in the article. And then I will share some of my opinions and experiences relate to their arguments According to the article I read online. I discovered Engels and Marx pointed out how the worldview had changed into a form of materialistic nature. And their theories were much more different from other…

in 1813, when the laboring class remains stagnant in society creating immense social gaps between rich and poor. Similar to this issue, our present day economy needs a change in the minimum wage in order to create more mobility, lessen the social inequality, and make the nation more politically stable. Just last year, 38 percent of all American workers made less than 20,000 dollars. Many families are barely able to get by from month to month and find themselves sinking…

learn they cannot always do everything they aspire to. Economic inequality has spurred a great movement of discontent and pessimism within the American public, specifically with the state of the federal government. No drastic improvements have been made to address the vast disparity between the haves and have-nots in America, fostering more political inequality, thus continuing the vicious circle of inequality for all. Economic inequality is not just a recent phenomena unexpectedly sprung on the…