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"The study, published ahead of this week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, suggests that by 2016 the gap between the world's rich and poor will widen to the extent that those at the top of the income pile will control over 50% of total global wealth. That percentage is up from 48% in 2014." According to a study, the richest 1% is expected to own more than half of the world's money by 2016

"In 2010, 15.1 percent of all persons lived in poverty. The poverty rate in 2010 was the highest poverty rate since 1993. Between 1993 and 2000, the poverty rate fell each year, reaching 11.3 percent in 2000." Poverty rates are growing and are at their highest since 1993.

"As out-of-zone students who attend TJ under the system's open-enrollment policy, Gray and his brothers are required to find their own transportation to school. At 6:38 a.m., they catch a city bus that takes them to Fourth and Broad streets, where they await another bus that usually gets them to school late." The school should find a way to put them on a school bus. TJ already houses an IB program, so why couldn't they just adjust a bus route to include the Gray brothers. Also, the city bus could pose a safety issue, as well as the fact that they are arriving at school late, so this is taking valuable education time away from them.

"School census figures back him up on that point - about 30 percent of eligible Richmond residents don't attend city schools. "

"A new Schott Foundation for Public Education report, "A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City," reveals that the communities where most of the city's poor, black and Hispanic students live suffer from New York policies and practices that give their schools the fewest resources and their students the least experienced teachers." This article is about how the poor and lower class of the United States suffer from lack of educational opportunity. Also how blacks and hispanics are four times more likely to be enrolled in one the United States' poorest performing high schools.

"Districts with higher poverty rates have fewer highly educated, experienced teachers and less stable teaching staffs. Students from low-income New York City families of all ethnic groups have little chance of being tested for gifted-and-talented program eligibility. Few black and Hispanic students are selected for the city's top exam schools, such as Stuyvesant and the Bronx High School of Science." This article discusses the inequality in education that kids from low income families receive in comparison to kids living in economically advantaged neighborhoods. Children living in better neighborhoods are more likely to receive a proper and advanced education simply because of their class and the place they live.

" In New York City, the nation's largest school system, on average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood where a child lives, than his or her abilities." Children are having their futures predetermined by the enviorment and the school systems they are a part of. This leads children with promising talents unable to utilize them due to lack of resources in their schools.