Inequality In America Essay

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4.1 What can we learn from the inequality in America? America is well known as the richest country, where you can enjoy your life with your family or your friend. However, the inequality in this country is getting bigger day by day. The result we are able to get through this issue is the nutritional disparity between rich and poor people. What is the lesson for us? What can we learn from this problem in America? The answer is the human rights in America do not exist in America anymore. In addition, we can learn that there are two types of Americas. One is America with money to receive healthful diets, a good food system. Most of people, who come from the high-income groups or middle-income groups, are able to access the food they want anytime. On the other hand, one is America with no money and human rights in their hand to receive a good food system, the only thing they are able to have is unhealthful diets, such as, processed food and junk food. Moreover, the results poor people get is a disease in specific is NCDs. According to the research in America, if we do not change the way the poor children eat, this generation will be the first generation has a shorter life than their parents because of nutritional disparity. Every day, America wake up and realize they have to face with food …show more content…

The solution for this issue is we can tax more the people, who from high-income groups and give these money for the people, who from middle-income groups and low-income groups. However, this solution has never been popular in America, and it is quite hard for the government to do this. On the other hand, America is able to decrease the educational gap between rich and poor people. For instance, colleges and universities can sponsor the scholarship for student, who from the low class. Even though this solution is not a quickly way, it is the only method for inequality in America (Keane,

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