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In terms of information, Politizane's video isn't offering anything new: Its analysis of American perceptions of wealth distribution, the line between rich and poor and the issue of America's ...
Wealth_Inequality_in_America_by_politizane.webm (WebM audio/video file, VP8/Vorbis, length 6 min 24 s, 640 × 360 pixels, 229 kbps overall, file size: 10.46 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons .
Americans have the highest income inequality in the rich world and over the past 20–30 years Americans have also experienced the greatest increase in income inequality among rich nations. The more detailed the data we can use to observe this change, the more skewed the change appears to be ... the majority of large gains are indeed at the top ...
Redistribution of income and wealth is the transfer of income and wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others through a social mechanism such as taxation, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law. [1]
After a quarter-century of declining inequality following World War II, income inequality increased in the late 1960s and accelerated after 1980 among affluent capitalist democracies. Inequality in wealth and income grew markedly between 1980 and 2009 in the United States, it increased only moderately in most other affluent democracies.
The "political cause" of inequality [ edit ] Hacker and Pierson describe the political action that has "abandoned the middle class" in the US in favor of making "the rich richer" in the last 30+ years as being the work of "modern, efficient organizations operating in a much less modern efficient political system."
There are five systems or types of social inequality: wealth inequality, treatment and responsibility inequality, political inequality, life inequality, and membership inequality. Political inequality is the difference brought about by the ability to access governmental resources which therefore have no civic equality.
2. What are the political and policy decisions that cause inequality? How has inequality in the United States today affected political participation and power? The course relies on a mix of media to explore the topics covered in class including videos, books, articles, television news reports, interviews, and speakers.