Income Inequality

Question 1

Answer the following questions in at least two paragraphs each. APA format and cite all references.

1. Describe the trend in pay/income inequality in the United States? (Is it widening or diminishing?) 

2. What can be some reasons for the trend that you have identified in Question 1?

3. Will the trend identified in Question 1 have a positive or negative impact on the economy? Why?

4. Make an argument of why the trend can be beneficial for the economy and make an argument as to why the trend can also have a negative impact on our economy.

Question 2

In her presentation of the basic measures used by sociologists to describe social inequality in our social system, Andersen examines how inequality is structured in the U.S., and how social inequality is distributed in the United States. Under what circumstances might these measures not reveal social class boundary lines? That is how, according to Andersen, might the conventional methods that sociologists use NOT be adequate to determine where one class begins and another ends?