effects of Capitalism and Inequality in American and Canadian economies today and also‚ the solutions to improve both society and quality of life. The first piece‚ is a 90-minute documentary titled Inequality for All directed by Jacob Kornbluth and produced by Jen Chaiken and Sebastian Dungan at 72 Productions‚ released in Fall 2013. This documentary is presented by economist‚ author and university professor‚ Robert Reich talking about the last 30 years of widening income inequality and explores the effects
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problem manifests itself is the practice of racial profiling‚ which is “any arbitrary police-initiated action based on race‚ ethnicity‚ or natural origin rather than a person’s behavior.”1 In an attempt to fight the war on drugs‚ or‚ more recently‚ on terrorism‚ federal and local governments are searching for more effective policies‚ which can have unintended racial consequences. Racial profiling happens to be one of them. More specifically‚
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Social works confronts firsthand with issues of economic inequality‚ as they work with people who have problems who are challenge each day with socially‚ complicated situations caused by these economic inequalities. Economic Inequality is defined as uneven distribution of wealth and not having equal opportunities to improve situation‚ while poverty means not having access to material resources‚ income or wealth. However‚ socials workers recognized how this system of equal distribution is skewed
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Savage Inequalities: Essay on Chapters 1-4 Chris Hendrick Mayer‚ PHIL 1200-100 In chapter one of Savage Inequalities‚ by Jonathan Kozol‚ he speaks of the disastrous state of East St. Louis. He describes in horrific detail‚ the condition that many school children from grades K-12 are forced to learn in. East St. Louis is one of the worst ghettos in Illinois‚ and Kozol goes into great detail about the multitude of
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- - - “WHY DOES INCOME INEQUALITY EXIST?” Submitted to: - Submitted by: - - - - 4. Why does income inequality exist? Income inequality‚ also known as economic inequality or wealth and income differences typically refers to inequality among individuals and society‚ but it can also refer to disparity among countries. There are many reasons for this phenomenon to happen within the societies‚ most of them are often inter-related. However‚ we could say that the most important
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The social phenomenon I am writing about is Racial Profiling because it’s a very popular and important phenomenon to talk about‚ especially all the things going on around the world now that’s causing racial profiling more dangerous. It’s really important to study since a lot of racial profiling goes on because people been racial profiling since a long time and still going on. Media has a lot of effect of racial profiling since everybody watches media and believes everything they say something bad
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Essay Comparison In the two essays‚ the main theme is inequality where the American society is highly stratified based on class. In both cases‚ the members of the lower class are unlikely to realize their ambitions not because they do not have the capacity‚ but because the ruling class does not give them an opportunity to do so. In his essay‚ Stiglitz observes‚ “Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our
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In the United States‚ the top ten percent of all households own seventy-six percent of all the wealth in the country (1). Income inequality is frequently highlighted‚ but why is wealth inequality rarely brought to our attention? The political system has failed to deal with the problem‚ and the gap will only continue to grow in the future. How can we call this the land of opportunity when the bottom forty percent will most likely stay the bottom forty percent for their entire lives (1)? That is why
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Racial Profiling Racial profiling is one of the most controversial and complex issue facing multicultural countries like Canada and the United States. It is an issue that elicits emotional debate and division within all segments of the society. This is due to the perceived discrimination that occurs based on people’s racial and ethnic composition or color. For instance‚ racial discrimination in the United States is often viewed in terms of the suffering inflicted on Black Americans by the Whites
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KEY POINTS FROM DR. ROBERT REICH’S FILM‚ INEQUALITY FOR ALL THE STATS+ Wealth Distribution • Today‚ the U.S.‚ by far‚ has the most unequal distribution of income of all developed nations. • The U.S. ranks 64th in the world on income inequality (i.e.‚ 63 nations are more equal than the U.S.) • The top 1% holds more than 35% of the nation’s overall wealth‚ while the bottom 50% controls 2.5%. • The richest 400 Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. • In 1970‚ the
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