The National Income Gap

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This paper discusses how, if the population of full-time workers in the United States is, with slight exception, exactly representative of the U.S. population itself, why is there such disparity in earnings between certain groups when equality is so widely preached? It explores the reality of wage discrimination in the U.S., citing a number of statistics depicting this phenomenon. Some possible reasons are given for this wage gap, namely, discrimination and the socialization of women and minorities into lower-ranked professions.

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"Kentucky's neighbor to the north, Indiana, is similar in racial composition but somewhat different in income distribution between both race and gender. Although there are a smaller percentage of females in the workforce?only 39.8%, compared with Kentucky's 42%, they earn a greater percentage of the total income distribution, although still making substantially less than similarly employed men. 49.8% of females earn less than $25,000 per year, compared with 23.3% of males; meanwhile, only 10% earn more than $50,000 annually, compared with more than 29% of men. Obviously, there is not enough difference between these figures and those for Kentucky to make much of an impact. In coastal and wealthier states, the earnings gap is narrower than in the South and Midwest, although truthfully not much more so."

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