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    “Wealth inequality can be described as the unequal distribution of assets within a population. The United States exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation‚” (www.inequality.org) There are two factors that I believe contribute to the wealth gap are income and race inequalities. As the gaps widen within those two factors‚ the wealth gap in the United States continues to grow exponentially. Is there a difference between being rich and being wealthy

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    A Response on Social Inequality We live in a culturally diverse world. Age‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ ethnic heritage and race are some of the diverse areas in society that are deemed significant. In spite of all these differences we tend to center ourselves around people who are similar to us; those who share the same biological and physical characteristics‚ same status and similar lifestyles. Because of this it is our human nature to be ethnocentric towards those who are different from us

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    Barack Obama’s administration has “focus[ed] all efforts” on the rising income inequality that is affecting the United States economy. Income inequality refers to the extent of unequal distribution of income across a population. According to Emmanuel Saez‚ an economics professor at UC-Berkeley‚ “U.S. income inequality has been increasing steadily since the 1970s‚” partly due to the rise of single-parent families‚ but mostly from a rise in demand for highly-educated workers following the post-industrial

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    Gender Inequality in Sporting A growing issue in Sporting history and an issue that is still around today is about the gender inequality between the competitors and judges/referees. To this day there is a growing gap in the amount that a Male Athlete is paid to what a Female Athlete is paid. An example of this is‚ the top paid male athlete is Cristiano Ronaldo and he is paid $93million per year and this is compared to Serena Williams‚ who is the top paid female athlete in the world and only

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    Diversity‚ Inequality‚ and Immigration Shanna Marie Fulwood HHS201 Angela Anderson February 11th‚ 2013 Diversity‚ inequality‚ and immigration or three words that brings mind some of the current political subjects that are currently affecting the United States today. Throughout the country’s history‚ there is the notable inequality and racial injustice in our society. This can be seen‚ and our history textbooks‚ about the Civil War‚ civil rights movement‚ and the more recently with the gay-rights

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    The Pigman By Paul Zindel

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    In the book The Pigman by Paul Zindel. There were two main characters‚ one of the characters his name is John‚ and the other is a girl and her name is Lorraine. They both or sophomores and go to the same school. You might think that they are the same‚ but they very different from one another. Lorraine is a good girl and John is the complete opposite. John is a six foot dude with longish brown hair and blue eyes. (pg 6) John is not your average good kid he is far from being good. He drinks‚ beer

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    Quintile Income Inequality

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    Income Inequality and the Lowest Quintile Income inequality is often associated with negative things such as decreased quality of life and a lack of social mobility. Yet‚ the lower classes are receiving less and less of the United States’ overall income while the top earners’ share is increasing. Why? This paper will explore causes of the growing income inequality as well as possible solutions to slowing it down. The income inequality gap has been growing over the past few decades‚ according to

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    In addition to its direct effect on poverty‚ inequality also effects poverty indirectly through its impact on growth. Initial cross-country studies found that greater initial income inequality actually reduces future growth even after controlling for initial levels of GDP and human capital. Evidence predominantly suggests that inequality is bad for growth. The World Development Report 2000/01 concludes that better distribution is possible without a reduction in economic growth. In other words there

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    equality supporters‚ inequality in America persists among race. Racial Inequality is defined as the imbalances in the distribution of economic‚ opportunities and power. Moreover‚ Africans Americans and Whites economic inequality merged because the economic disadvantage of blacks made it harder for this group to save money‚ since in poverty‚ people live day by day. Race plays a big role in American life. Blacks were subject to slavery‚ following segregation‚ creating and affecting inequality in welfare and

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    families financially‚ including mine. Trying to cover all necessary costs to survive seemed to be difficult as the years passed by. Inequality becomes a problem when ‚what we consider middle class‚ families are severely struggling just to survive. Many of us are unaware of the reality of how money is distributed in the United States.

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