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The article below is an excerpt from the Policy Information Report, published by the Educational Testing Service and is based on 2008 NAEP data. Although the following discussion focuses on the Black/White educational achievement gap the paper discusses trends in the gap between Black and White educational attainment, school achievement, and contextual factors from the beginning of the 20th century to the present time. I believe mobility plays a big part in the gap. Being born and raised in a…

Felons with a second chance Introduction According to Bloomington housing authority “If a felon has engaged in any violent criminal activity, or in any other criminal activity that would affect other tenants’ health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises will not be accepted for public housing or section 8. Therefore, some paroles that have serious drug felons are left having no governmental assisted housing. As a result, paroles are stuck in finding housing in the privatized…

In Peter Singer’s essay, “The Solution to World Poverty”, he attempts to convince the audience, through hypothetical examples and his philosophical background, that much more could be done by individuals to end world poverty. Because Singer’s arguments for saving children’s lives come from a perspective of morality and desire to contribute to the greater good of the world, it is hard to refute. For this reason, I agree with Singer on his perspective that Americans should give more, which I was…

With a population of 5049, Woolloongabba sits on the 63 percentiles in socio-economic status, in which is higher than the averages of both Queensland and Australia alone, 51-53 percentile. In terms of the Indigenous population, 1.2% of Woolloongabba's population is Indigenous. AS of the 2016 census, there are 21.21 people situated in one hectare. Dominant age groups within this suburb include 25-34-year-olds (29%) and over 60 years old with a percentage of 11.5%. Citizens living in this suburb…

So that's wealth inequality. Income inequality is a factor which contributes to wealth inequality. So, to start with, your idea that people who are at the very top of income earners are worth their pay is flawed. I'm not saying this from an ideological standpoint. The income of top earners has ballooned something like 400%, in real wages, since 1980, despite very little evidence that they are actually contributing to a company's growth. At the same time, real wages for middle-income workers have…

We have an idea of what the complexities of inequality are based on the information in the previous section. However, what generates the unequal distribution of earnings, wealth, income, opportunities and, etc.? According to Goran Therborn’s essay, inequality can be created in four basic ways. The triggers of inequality consist of: • Distantation • Exclusion • Hierarchy • Exploitation First, distantation is the idea that some individuals are racing ahead, while others fall behind (Therborn,…

1. What do you think New York City officials hoped would happen when they first imposed rent controls? New York City officials hoped that by conducing the first imposed rent controls in order to prevent higher rent on housing. New York City began rent control after World War 1. The reason for this rent control was to keep rents from rising from the equilibrium levels since the quantity demanded at the ceiling at that time, exceeded the quantity supplied. 2. Why did real estate developers…

Both sexes participation in the labour force are relatively similar with Male 64.4% vs. Female 61.6%. Female single parents occupying private dwellings rate is significantly higher 88.8% compared to 11.2% of Males single parents in the population households. LGA average family income in TI is $1,736 relatively higher compared to NSW at $1,477. The main industries people from Thursday Island work involve public sector jobs with 24.7% Health care and social assistance, 20.4% Public administration…

I come from a low-income single-parent household that falls below the standards of the national poverty line for a family of four. Being able to see how difficult it is to budget under these circumstances truly exposes me the realities of the economic injustices that we speak of in class. As I…

College is Not for Everyone If you go to high school in Michigan, you know that you do not get to pick very many of the classes you take. The state of Michigan has come up with a set of standards every student has to follow and demands every student take the SAT, so the students will be prepared for college. There is just one essential thing that the state overlooks with this thinking. Not every student in the state of Michigan is going to go to college or should even go to college. As a result…