Sklar and the Economist: Inequality in America

America was once known as a place of opportunity. But this is no longer the case. Americans are suffering from depression which started three years ago in 2008. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in the United States in 2007 was 6%. In 2009, one year after depression began, the unemployment rate rose to 6%. Millions of Americans live in poverty and can not afford to buy basic daily necessities. On the other hand, there are a few percent of the population of billionaires.

Inequality in the United States has grown in combination with many factors. This is not always the case. In the 1950s and 1960s, America was very equal. Economist and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said that in order to cope with income inequality it is often asked what kind of society the United States should follow. In New York, the mayor is a billionaire, his competition's competition is mainly focused on this topic, and inequality is caused by Wall Street traders and chief executive officers receiving special compensation It increased rapidly. In the rust zone, the reduction in employment in the manufacturing industry helped to hollow out the middle class, and the idea that anyone who works hard can live a stable life irrespective of their family background is greatly impaired.

In the majority of the decade, the expansion of income inequality in the United States has always been a concern for economists and activists. Some of the reasons for this gap may be that the US 's most sophisticated company - in particular the technology company - is turning around a lot of low skill work outsourcing. Many of the discussions on outsourcing focus on overseas manufacturing shifts, but the same trends affect security workers in the domestic industry ranging from security personnel to product testers. In the New York Times new topic, economics journalist Neil Irwin compared the situation of the two managers. The two managers began in Kodak in the 1980s. Today it began with Apple. After the inflation adjustment, the two workers received a similar wage, but at the time Kodak's gatekeeper Gail Evans, an employee of a powerful photo company, was eligible for paid vacation and training.

Our understanding of inequality in America was born from the work of Stanford University economist Raja Ceti. He showed us the importance of determining upward liquidity, the long-term impact of poverty when childhood, and the importance of inequality to everything from invention to death. Currently, in a groundbreaking new study by Harvard University, a research team at Stanford University and Census Bureau, he changed the conversation again. Recent studies have shown that black men are worse than 99% white men, even though their children grew next to their parents with the same income. And perhaps even more shockingly, these gaps will only get worse in low-income communities and good schools.