Category: Economic Inequality

Today South Africa is still not a free and fair democracy as defined in our Constitution. There are huge divisions in society due largely to the past apartheid regime. This disparity manifests as economic inequality including income, employment and educational inequality. It also manifests as social and geographical inequality and the lack of basic services…

The 21st century discord is a majorly increasing problem in today’s world in regards to political, social and economic inequalities. These issues are growing at an astonishing rate and if they are not resolved soon, they will cause us to degrade as a human race and destroy the infrastructure for future generations to come. Social…

Inequality can come in many different forms like gender, racial or social inequality. In this essay, I will focus on economic inequality as it often exaggerates and contributes to the other types of inequalities mentioned. Economic inequality comes in two forms mainly: income and wealth inequality. There are many different measures of inequality: using the…

Inequality, in its myriad of social and economic forms, is a persisting issue in Latin American society. As of 2014, Latin America was found to be the most economically unequal region in the world: just 10% of the richest Latin Americans controlled 71% of the regions wealth (Ibarra, 2014). When wealth is concentrated in the…

Over the past few decades, America has been experiencing a great deal of alterations. One of those changes involves the growth of the country. The expansion rate in America has been rapidly growing since 1950. Decreased death rate and an increase in average human age are some of the leading causes of skyrocketing population. Growth…

On May 7-9, 2018, UCLA staged a vigorous three-day strike. For a long time, not only UCLA, but also the entire UC system (UC system). More than 20,000 of the lowest-level employees (not professors, but meager labor) have been protesting, the financially fascinating University of California is actually on pay so embarrassing. Their ‘humble’ status…

For the beginning, I would like to define the notion of economic and social inequality, before we move to the main idea of this research. Economic inequality has two meanings: it can either refer to income distribution or wealth distribution among countries. Income distribution and wealth distribution refer to the national income divided among citizens…

Inequality in the distribution of wealth is an issue in the majority of societies. The US faces a similar problem where there are considerable disparities in the distribution of income and wealth. The existing studies and statistics reveal that Hispanics are hugely affected since they occupy the lower end in the distribution of wealth and…

It is undeniable that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe are now experiencing inequality. Assessing the causes of such a phenomenon is an intricate issue because of the very dynamic essence of the concept of inequality itself. Crucially, this essay will delve into the contrast between the ‘distributive conception’ of inequality and the ‘relational view’…