Lately, one argument that’s been making the rounds is that people should worry less about inequality and more about opportunity. Arthur Brooks, head of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said, “I don’t care about income inequality per se; I care about opportunity inequality.” Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio believes that inequality is but a symptom of immobility and constrained opportunity.
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- Inequality
The term inequality refers to a condition of being unequal, or of being given an unequal share of treatment, status, or opportunity. People are often aware of inequalities in social status, human rights, education, job availability, and income opportunities.
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Basic Facts About Income Inequality Global inequality has been declining fast since 1990s. During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, global inequality increased dramatically, reflecting widening disparities between countries’ per capita income as advanced economies took off sharply compared with the rest of the world.
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The meaning of INEQUALITY is the quality of being unequal or uneven. How to use inequality in a sentence.
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Gender inequality, unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals due to their gender; Participation inequality, the phenomenon in which a small percentage of people contributes the majority of information to the total outcome; Racial inequality, hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories within a society
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