Income Inequality In America
INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Still to date, the problem of income inequality is an issue of a great importance for million of African-Americans and others who struggle to improve their quality of life. It must be known by now, that economic injustice has had a devastating impact on black communities all across America. Issues such as inequality and racial discrimination in education, the social environment, and economics have gone on for too long, and it has been engraved in the American society as a way of life, a norm, and permanently engraved in our mind, which implies that hope for a better change in the way of our lives ,was and still is given up. Income inequality has many implications on all of us: poverty, …show more content…
Now, as active members of this society, we ought to speak up against it until the situation gets better; we need to get our heads together and think of a way that would at least stop the widening of the gap between the two social class. Taxes should be imposed on everyone, and they should pay the same percentage. It is ridiculous that a CEO pays less than his own secretary. The government should realize that recovering from the recession by taxing everyone equally is much better from cuts on education, health, social security, and laying off hard working men and women. I believe that the most active citizens of this society are whom who protest this inequality and nowadays we witness it in the Occupy Movement. Even though the number of protests and protesters have declined a bit, I still have hope that the people will have their saying and hopefully convince the government to take measures targeting economical injustice. Even though theses protests are always faced with a clash from the locals police forces, people seeking a better future keep going and become apart of the movement. We have to remember what the founding fathers have taught us: By the people for the …show more content…
IX- Richard Wikinson, a british researcher in social inequalities explores other consequences of this issue in the United States.
X- Thinking of solutions to this problem.
XII- Conclusion: A hope for a better America.
Hamza Hachim
English1A
Tuesday 1st May, 2012
WORK CITED:
Barach, David. The Wanton Wages if Income Inequality. January 13th, 2012. The Chronicle of Higher Education. <http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-wages-of-inequality/43020>.
Chavis, Jr. Benjamin. Dr. Black American Income Inequality. January 5th, 2012. Black Voice News: <http://blackvoicenews.com/commentary/more-commentary/47287-black-american-income-inequality.html>.
King, Willford. The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States. 1915. University of Wisconsin Library.
Miles, D. Harer. The Differing Effects of Economic Inequality on Black and White Rates of Violence. Oxford Journals. <http://socialforces.unc.edu/content/70/4/1035.full.pdf+html?sid=308ff1bc-22bf-49d1-9722-aa695b89e064>.
Slack, Brian. The Gini Coefficient. The Geography of Transport:
Still to date, the problem of income inequality is an issue of a great importance for million of African-Americans and others who struggle to improve their quality of life. It must be known by now, that economic injustice has had a devastating impact on black communities all across America. Issues such as inequality and racial discrimination in education, the social environment, and economics have gone on for too long, and it has been engraved in the American society as a way of life, a norm, and permanently engraved in our mind, which implies that hope for a better change in the way of our lives ,was and still is given up. Income inequality has many implications on all of us: poverty, …show more content…
Now, as active members of this society, we ought to speak up against it until the situation gets better; we need to get our heads together and think of a way that would at least stop the widening of the gap between the two social class. Taxes should be imposed on everyone, and they should pay the same percentage. It is ridiculous that a CEO pays less than his own secretary. The government should realize that recovering from the recession by taxing everyone equally is much better from cuts on education, health, social security, and laying off hard working men and women. I believe that the most active citizens of this society are whom who protest this inequality and nowadays we witness it in the Occupy Movement. Even though the number of protests and protesters have declined a bit, I still have hope that the people will have their saying and hopefully convince the government to take measures targeting economical injustice. Even though theses protests are always faced with a clash from the locals police forces, people seeking a better future keep going and become apart of the movement. We have to remember what the founding fathers have taught us: By the people for the …show more content…
IX- Richard Wikinson, a british researcher in social inequalities explores other consequences of this issue in the United States.
X- Thinking of solutions to this problem.
XII- Conclusion: A hope for a better America.
Hamza Hachim
English1A
Tuesday 1st May, 2012
WORK CITED:
Barach, David. The Wanton Wages if Income Inequality. January 13th, 2012. The Chronicle of Higher Education. <http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-wages-of-inequality/43020>.
Chavis, Jr. Benjamin. Dr. Black American Income Inequality. January 5th, 2012. Black Voice News: <http://blackvoicenews.com/commentary/more-commentary/47287-black-american-income-inequality.html>.
King, Willford. The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States. 1915. University of Wisconsin Library.
Miles, D. Harer. The Differing Effects of Economic Inequality on Black and White Rates of Violence. Oxford Journals. <http://socialforces.unc.edu/content/70/4/1035.full.pdf+html?sid=308ff1bc-22bf-49d1-9722-aa695b89e064>.
Slack, Brian. The Gini Coefficient. The Geography of Transport: