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It is extremely difficult for a low-income family to change their circumstance because of the “culture of poverty.” Because poor families “have lived so long under such miserable conditions, many come to develop attitudes, practices, and self-conception that inhibit to improve their life prospects” or that of their children” (Shelby 8). Children in poorer families […]

As the Inequality gap between the wealthy and poor grows, those who have fewer means must spend less on their children. Figure 2 depicts the growing spending gap between wealthier and poorer families. The top decile of household income has been able to spend more than twice the amount of money in 2010 on their children […]

America has fallen short of being a just society because of increasing inequalities between those in the top 20% of the wealth in America and those in the bottom 80%. The distribution of wealth in America between 1998 and 2004 is depicted below in Figure 1. (Figure 1) Those in the bottom 80% of the […]