The Importance Of Incomes In America
America is known as "the land of opportunity." But do people pay attention to whether or not America deserves to be known as the land of opportunity.. Instead, Americans seem fascinated by polls and surveys on the distribution of incomes. These surveys show that incomes are less evenly distributed than they were 20 or 30 years ago. In 1973, the richest 5 percent of all families had 11 times as much monthly pay as the poorest 5 percent. By 1996, they had almost 20 times as much. Not only the difference of income should concern us. The system that gives out the incomes should be looked into as well. I would say that you cannot judge the fairness of any specific distribution without knowing something about the rules that they play by. Imagine