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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EFFECTS OF INCOME INEQUALITY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE USING U.S. COUNTY-LEVEL DATA is an academic article written by Bebonchu Atems. This article or Journal comes from the Journal of Regional Science Vol. 53‚ and was published November fourth‚ 2013. Bebonchu Atems (assistant professor of Economics and Financial Studies) is part of the Department of Economics School of Business at Clarks University. When studies are done on the U.S level on relationship between variables such as income inequality and economic
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Diversity Management (LUBS5365M) Assignment One: Explain why inequalities in pay persist in the UK labour market and how these can be addressed with reference to legislation‚ social policy and other factors. Submission Date: 12/03/2014 Word Count: 2992 Introduction In current society‚ the gender equalities in pay are obviously in most countries‚ especially in UK labour market‚ it is one of the highest gender pay gap in European Union (Rubery‚ 1998). OECD (2013)
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also gone further to reinforce the laws established in 1964 to amend this act in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Classes in social diversity can now be found within the school system in order to broaden the minds and explain differences to the members of society. Though regardless of these attempts‚ racial inequality still exists in our society today. This inequality effects the education minorities receive‚ the wages they earn and even the neighborhoods in which minorities live. All of
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Social inequality is a serious problem of the past‚ present‚ and future‚ in all time periods such as the Great Depression. The people who are being treated unfairly become conserved angry‚ as well as many other mixed emotions. The people that do not treat every person equal also faces similar problems. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the Great Depression in the southern city of Maycomb‚ Alabama which can cause different ethnicities to face inequality because of the color of their
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Inequalities in Health Appraisal Inequalities in health have many factors but these can be argued against as to whether they are the actual cause. Social class is a factor‚ along with region‚ age‚ gender‚ ethnicity etc. Measuring the impact of social class is difficult because social classes have changed over the years‚ eg) working class living conditions have changed‚ and there is a delay in the onset of diseases‚ eg) Asbestos related illness. (NICE 2009) However the Black Reports (1980)
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Inequality in the Criminal Justice System Is there structural inequality in the criminal justice system? When we watch the news or read our newspapers‚ we can see that most of the criminals portrayed are of African American or Hispanic descent. Being a fan of true crime novels‚ they even depict more Black male criminals than White males. Are African American males committing more crimes than White males? What factors are involved for Blacks to be more involved in crime? How do African American
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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
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20: Income Inequality and Poverty 1) Income Inequality and Poverty A person’s earnings depend on the supply and demand for that person’s labor‚ which in turn depend on natural ability‚ human capital‚ compensating differentials‚ discrimination‚ and so on. 2) THE MEASUREMENT OF INEQUALITY How much inequality is there in our society? How many people live in poverty? What problems arise in measuring the amount of inequality? How often do people move among income classes? 3) Table 1 The Distribution
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