Paul Krugman Confronting Inequality

“The Worst form of Inequality is to try to make equal things equal”
--Aristotle
Over the past generation inequality has become a big issue in our society. Whether you are rich or poor, born here or immigrant, high class or middle class, inequality will find its own way to you some how. Here we should stop and ask ourselves why should we care about high and rising inequality? The answer to this question is in these three articles, “Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs “by Shayan Zadeh, “Confronting Inequality” by Paul Krugman, and RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013” by Edward McClelland. These three articles have discussed the inequality issue from three different point of views in three different and unique ways.
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This question goes through mostly all the people’s mind in the United States now. Paul Krugman, in his article “Confronting Inequality”, explains why that differences are a problem. America's middle class is overreaching themselves in an effort to give their kids more opportunities. Many middle class are buying homes that they can't afford, so that their children will be attending a good school so that their children can have more opportunities, but on the other hand the rich society are creating their own world away from the middle class and of course That shows the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor which leads to the growing difference in social equality. In this article the author used lots of comparison methods to show the difference between the poor and the wealthy society. He also used some facts and diagrams to convince his audience with his case (Krugman
Median wages have been flat for decade or more. The quality of available jobs is declining, with a shift toward part-time and contingent work. while the Great Recession intensified these trends and added a staggering loss of housing wealth, the problems go further back and are far more systemic. In 1970s, the united state saw the growth of the country's middle class, with plenty of job prospects and economic conditions that generate business opportunities. Later on step by step that great middle class started to die out. In the article “RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013” by Edward McClelland, the author discussed the factor that resulted of the failure of the middle class, he also said that the decline of the middle class resulted from the failure of the government policies, the failure of government to protect the interests of ordinary Americans to achieve and hold onto a middle-class standard of living. In the article, the author was so clever about his title because the title has that attention-getting element. Also he used lots of fact and dates to make the audience on his side (MacClelland