Poverty and Inequalities

Introduction

Social mobility was a feature of the social development to the eighties but since then, with the implementation of structural reform measures, lost fluency. Today united states is characterized by continuing high levels of social inequality that are expressed in the distribution of income, access to education, health, social welfare, the housing, culture. In United States, although poverty has tended to increase in recent years its incidence in 2007 was only slightly higher than in 2004. The analysis shows that poverty tends to follow the economic cycle and that inequality in income distribution has hardly changed (Pressman, 127). Based ...