The National Catholic Reporter(NCR) Editorial Staff published an editorial titled, “Poverty pokes through the political noise.” I agree strongly with their idea that poverty and economic inequality should play a huge role in upcoming political debates, and I believe that it is about time that politicians stop avoiding these issues. Economic inequality and poverty are so significant in today’s society and are so complex that there is no specific answer as to how to resolve them. These issues have only recently began playing an important role in politics as the people of the United States are becoming more aware about how prevalent poverty and income inequality have become. Politicians tend to avoid discussions about class, but at the end of
Inequality. We have heard this word many times before. Truly, the world is not a fair place, but why? Why do people in the United States have homes, and power, and food, while people in Africa are still starving? Is it because of race?
In Smiley and West’s interview they heavily criticize both candidates for their deprioritization of poverty in their platforms and policies. They argue that poverty is a critical issue in any federal election because a largely impoverished population threatens America’s national security and democracy. The last time that the federal government put forth any large effort to fight poverty was President LBJ’s War on Poverty. Since that policy, no president has used their executive power to establish a commission entirely dedicated to eradicating poverty. Smiley and West believe that this is not because the government does not have the knowledge or capability to do so, but because it is not a political priority for those in
“The bottom 40% of Americans own almost nothing.” Said the video, Wealth Inequality In America. The lower class are scraping by and are not able to invest in stocks or other consuming items whether it deal with money or time. The video, Wealth Inequality in America also said, “The top 20% of Americans own almost everything.” The wealthy community should contribute more to the lower class, allowing more equality of wealth.
To begin, inequality still exists in the United States today because of transgenders getting ban from the military. For example, Trump says that “the U.S government will not accept transgenders to serve in any capacity in the military and that the military should just be focused on the victory and not just by the disruption that transgenders in the military would entail.” This shows that Trump thinks that the LGBT community is a distraction to our society. Trump thinks that they aren’t capable of fighting strong and provide protection to our country. If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t be here.
Many solutions, such as social investment, early childhood education, job training for young adults are avenues for addressing the shrinking middle class. Many of these ideas have been around since the 1990s, and most know that they will work, however, no one wants to pay the cost of such social investments. Thus, this is a fine example of how one topic, income inequality, can be addressed from two different angles, that of economist and that of sociologists, and what contributes to the inequality can be supported based on what is actually measured. In this specific comparison, due to the differences in disciplines addressing the same issue, the variables measured are completely different and as a result, yield very different results.
The United States is one of the most developed and wealthiest nations on the planet. However, the nation today has more income and wealth inequality as compared to any other key developed nation. In addition, there is a very large gap that exists between extremely rich and the rest of the people. Most of this income and wealth is controlled by a shocking small percentage of individuals. This accrues to only 1 percent of the nation’s total population.
Throughout all of history wealth has never been distributed evenly; no monarchist kingdom, communist utopia, socialistic society, or modern free market has ever existed in a state of equilibrium. The laws of the land have always seemed to operate in a manner of some sort of prejudice. The rich generate wealth at a much higher rate than the poor. Income inequality has existed, in some form or another, since the first trade transaction. Since, we have begun record keeping, statistics show the rich controlling increasing amounts of the total income.
Income Inequality Income Inequality or “wage gap” is a big topic for freedom fighters and liberals for the simple fact that it isn’t equal for everyone. Because the wage gap is so prominent it's one of the biggest “facts” that discrimination is still apart of everyday American society. The wage gap from these radical interest groups think the economy is get a dollar take a dollar instead of a free flow economy. This misguided idea of the economy is absolutely not true and isn’t at the fault of the Government, but the people.
Obama’s argument opposes Suroweicki argument by explaining the inequality and mobility of this country. Obama makes an argument that states that it is dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility that has jeopardized middle class America’s basic bargain (Obama 338). This states that the economic stability and mobility have given the people that represent the middle class at least chance to make it to the next level. The economic stability and mobility has shown people how they’re finances will stand at in this country. He believed that the next years will determine how the children of this country will grow up and would help display their opportunity is real.
In short, the social structure such as terms of employment or tax systems, bring about the present American economic inequality. There is interaction between social structure and economic inequality. If one of them get worse, the another will also be aggravated. The government should carry out the policy to reform the whole American society paying attention to all consistent of America, not only improve superficial part of
Nowadays, USA is a strongest and most powerful country in world economies. Moreover, America is able to control the economy in the world through their economic strengths. If we use money to determine the wealthy of one country, USA is always on the top of the world. According to the numbers were reckoned up, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that America is the most moneyed country ( Nuoc nao giau nhat the gioi 2015, 2015.). Everything always has a good side and bad side, as well as, the riches in America.
"Now, as a nation, we don 't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That 's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up." —Barack Obama
In today’s emotionally charged political society, the issues of race and gender are hotly contested and well documented, but another issue is less well known. Socioeconomics, the study of social and economic factors, determines how people live their lives every day. The main factor determining where people live, where kids go to school, what clothes people wear, how people are viewed by others, and more, is socioeconomic status. People are separated and organized in all aspects of life based on their income because people of a higher income and status are more flexible and have more choices than those with lower incomes. This fact is a problem that is increasingly causing social classes to emerge in America.
It does not seem like many people see poverty as an issue, bell hook argues that poverty in this culture is actually “seen as synonymous with depravity, lack and worthlessness.” (George 673) I, myself have never really paid attention to things like poverty because I did not feel like it mattered to me or affected me in anyway, but even though it does not affect me now that does not mean it did not affect me before and even if I am not a current part of the poverty rate it should still matter to me as well as everyone else in the world. If no one cares about an issue the issue is not going to get resolved and people are still going to be struggling. In Diana’s article it is believed that our understanding of what poverty is and how we might address it is limited because of the way people are representing poverty in the country and on
Income inequality and insights for possible solutions As the trend of globalization has been growing vastly, economies have thrived across many countries, and people living in those countries are becoming wealthier at both material level and spiritual level. At this stage, many inequalities occur. Following those inequalities are protests and conflicts, demanding the authority to address and resolve those issues. One of the most controversial inequalities is income inequality.