The Plight of the Wealthy

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This paper discusses the concept of income inequality as part of the history of the United States, and as it persists today. This paper goes on to analyze Robert Breslers 'Gini Index', the tool used to measure the inequality within the US economy.

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"Income inequality in the United States has developed since the nineteenth century and the industrial age. Historically the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Mellons of the industrial age were the individuals that understood that wealth was capable of transforming anyone's life if society provided the window of opportunity. For those men the industrial age brought significant social change that forever changed the landscape of the American work force, and began a surge of possibilities in the nation that continues today. Through the past, the wealthy were capable of discovering how the developments in the labor market, and the changing make-up of households could develop into millions of dollars if one knew what the working man needed, and how much money the average household was capable of spending (Bresler 17). According to Robert Bresler the "Gini Index" measures the inequality of the economy within the United States."

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