Clark's United States Blog

      As said in Blink, there is a gender income gap between men and women in the United States (Discrimination). Women make 79% of what men earn, and the gap is even larger for women of color. Although the validity of this statistic has been highly debated, it does show that there is a gap. There is, however, already an Equal Pay Act, which was enacted in 1963, that makes it illegal to pay women or men less solely based on their gender. This further complicates the topic of whether the statistic is true or not, but if it is true, then the U.S Government needs to more strictly enforce the law, or add more legislation to combat the earnings gap.      Another cause of inequality in the United States is the inequality of opportunities, namely education. Those in poorer neighborhoods are less likely to have quality education because public schools in those areas often get less funding ( Source ). Since these people will get a worse education and are poor, ...

  Gini Index 2016 0.414 2007 0.41     As seen by the Lorenz Curve, there is a large amount of money concentrated in the top 20% of income earners in the United States. The Gini coefficient further shows this inequality. A Gini Coefficient of .414 isn't an astonishingly high number, it does show that income inequality is an issue. Although the Lorenz Curves are nearly identical for the year 2007 and 2016, the Gini Coefficients illustrate how that the United States is not heading in the right direction to achieve income equality. Though it is a near negligible move of only .004, it shows that the United States income inequality is getting worse, even if it's at a slow rate.