Bernie Sanders Wealth Inequality Analysis

Today America is one of the richest countries in the world, however over half of it geos to those in our country who already own so much of the wealth. Today The United States’ wealth distribution has a greater gap between the exceedingly wealthy and the rest of the citizens than it has in nearly the past decade. “There is something profoundly wrong when the top one-tenth of one percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent,” believes Bernie Sanders. One of Bernie’s main platforms is redistribution of wealth and reduction in income along with wealth inequality. As a country filled with the obnoxiously rich our childhood poverty rate is among the highest of all of the developed countries. We work longer for lower wages than other countries and we shouldn’t have to. Bernie Sanders is looking to over double federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour all the way to $15 an hour. He believes that no home with a working family member spending 40 hours a week on the job should be stuck living below the poverty line.
His goal is to give everyone an equal opportunity for education. Starting from the very beginning parents should be able to send their children to free, available childcare. America needs universal childcare and prekindergarten programs. These young ages are some of the most important in the development of children and it is essential that all children get the opportunity for it. From then on children should have the opportunity to go through school for free and then be able to get a collage level education for free. College education should not be something only the middle class can attain, then be indebted by for life. After that or for those who don’t go to college it shouldn’t be impossible to get a job. “Youth unemployment rate is off the charts,” and young adults and teenagers need experience so they can easily break into the work force with previous