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"What I am writing about is "educational responsibility," and, to be as tactfully blunt as possible, it is written to see if I am the only one who is upset with the ongoing diatribe from groups that choose to bash public school systems and are of the opinion that educators are the ones to blame for failure rates, poor test scores and homework not being turned in on time or at all." This article explains how people should stop bashing on the school education public system and the educators and should focus on the student's responsibilities. The author explains how less blame and responsibility should be lifted off of the teachers because students must learn how to be responsible with their own work

"As individuals, we are each responsible for our own actions and their consequences. If people's actions result in a drop in their well-being, that is their personal responsibility" This article discusses the roll that the government has played in supporting 'have-nots' and the moral and ethical issues that go along with that. It brings up the point that we are responsible for our actions multiple times.

"The lack of jobs is the new normal because our tax and regulatory policies are driving more businesses and jobs to other countries. One would think that with so many Baby Boomers retiring, a ton of jobs would become available. Apparently, that isn't happening, which shows how sick our job market is. It's time for new leadership to address the fundamental problems: taxes, regulations, education (geared toward future job requirements) and reduction of illegal immigration." This article speaks about the responsibility of the people that can change the unemployment. It brings a negative point that unemployment is seeming to be the new normal and that these required responsibilities should be fixed for helping employment even more.

This article talks about the responsibility of employers whether the person is disabled or not. I think it is a good document because employers represent the haves and their responsibility over the have-nots or the unemployed.

This article talks about the responsibility the super rich have for the community.

"Experts note that welfare has done little to stem the growth of poverty among children. In all but two states, welfare benefits (including food stamps) are insufficient to move a family above the poverty line." This article talks about the many reasons for a welfare reform and the responsibilities that those that receive welfare have. It talks about how welfare doesn't encourage work and has done little to reduce poverty, especially among children. The authors believe that 42% of people that receive welfare do not work and in order to promote jobs, they might need to cut off the cash given to them so that the have-nots will have a responsibility for their children, their family, and their jobs.

" The states with the highest percentage of people age 18-64 on disability in the U.S. are West Virginia (where the number is nearly 1 in 10), Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Maine, Tennessee, South Carolina and Missouri." This article shows what states in what regions of the country have the highest rates of people with disabilities, and it also explains what the government is doing to help those with disabilities. It, in addition to these two things, explains in detail how the people with more money and more intellectual awareness have a responsibility to help the less fortunate ones.

"Thirty-four of the properties are in southeast Queens - an area still struggling to recover from the recent foreclosure crisis." "This is a hand up, not a hand out," said the group's CEO Neil Hetherington. "[The families] have gone from a situation of despair to one of hope." This article provides an example of how the haves can help the have nots, while the have nots take on responsibility. The Habitat for Humanity organization says they are a "hand up, not a hand out," as they require the low income families who are going to receive a house to work along side the volunteers for a certain amount of time.

""It's far more demoralizing to work and be poor than to be unemployed and poor," Linda Tirado writes in her book, "Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America," about her own experiences living in poverty. "Being poor while working hard is crushing. It's living in a nightmare where the walls just never stop closing in on you."" This article discusses the wealthy and that the "primary predictor of our economic circumstances as adults, is not our I.Q. or how hard we work, but rather our parent's level of income as we grew up." Overall, it talks about the lives of people below the federal poverty line and how they should be able to get help from those more fortunate than themselves.

"Early next year, the Agriculture Department will award $200 million to as many as 10 states conducting pilot projects that help food stamp recipients get into the workforce." This article addresses the benefits for those using food stamps, as well as what is being done to aid them in finding employment and slowly becoming responsible for their own needs and income. It discusses goals of the food stamp program, including helping those in the program find work. However, the article also mentions that the purpose of food stamps is to aid those who are unfit for work and to advocate anti-hunger.

"22 years after the enactment of the Americans With Disabilities Act, we have an unemployment rate among people with disabilities approaching 67, almost two-thirds" This article discusses how the unemployment rate of those with disabilities is astonishingly more than that of non-disabled people. Senator Tom Harkin talks about how the "haves" should take responsibility for the unemployment rate of the "have-nots." He also mentions the reason for his concern is that after the Americans With Disabilities Act there should not be this much of a gap between the unemployment rate of disabled and non-disabled people.

"But visiting a place like Grundy reveals a more complicated picture. There are undoubtedly some who exaggerate their ailments in order to collect their checks. But many of the coal workers here have experienced horrific on-the-job accidents and can't go back to the mines. Other residents have been battered by diabetes, obesity, and tobacco. Others still suffer from severe depression and intellectual disabilities that would preclude most kinds of work. And most importantly, there are no other options here: no orthodontist's office where someone can work the front desk; no big firms brimming with entry-level secretarial jobs. It's not even clear how a person would go about calling around for a job here: My iPhone stopped working a few miles outside the county line." This article describes a small county, nestled in the Virginia Appalachians where many of the citizens rely on disability checks coming in every month. It argues both sides of the 'responsibility' argument, with examples of people who truly need disability payments and people who abuse the system.

"If we spend a small portion of what society has given us on poor families, we can see happiness all around. The wealthy class should think of the have-nots, so that everybody can eat like us and sleep in peace," he stated. This article talks about the idea of giving back to the community. It ask that people give back to their community but not requiring that they do so.

"Americans have long looked to our public schools to provide opportunities for individual advancement, promote social mobility, and share democratic values. We believe good schools are essential to democracy and prosperity - and that it is our collective responsibility to educate all children, not just a fortunate few. Over the past three decades, however, we have witnessed a betrayal of those ideals." This article includes information about local economic inequality. It talks about how all students have a right to learn no matter what there zip code is or their parent's ability to work. It also states that the education system should not focus on how badly poverty has damaged them, education opportunities should focus on the needs of any student.

"Putnam's data verifies what many of us have seen anecdotally, that the children of the more affluent and less affluent are raised in starkly different ways and have different opportunities. Decades ago, college-graduate parents and high-school-graduate parents invested similarly in their children. Recently, more affluent parents have invested much more in their children's futures while less affluent parents have not." This Article basically explains what the opportunity gap is and how it affects education in America. It talks about how higher class children typically have more opportunities than lower class children. It also explains why jobs have an affect on opportunities because, the parents of children need money to send them to college, so without a good job children may not make it to college.

"The children of the more affluent and less affluent are raised in starkly different ways and have different opportunities. As a result, poorer kids are less likely to participate in voluntary service work that might give them a sense of purpose and responsibility. Their test scores are lagging. Their opportunities are more limited." This article explains the differences between the social classes of America, and their relation to education. Families who have a larger income than others tend to invest more time and money into their children. Kids who come from families who are wealthier are roughly twice as likely to participate in after school sports, and be members of nonsporting activities, also receiving better test scores and a sense of purpose and responsibility. Those with a larger amount of money are exposed to a plethora of opportunities which open doors to countless others, while those who are not so lucky do not get the same chance. Affluent individuals are more likely to raise children with other prosperous individuals in self-segregated areas where they are not exposed to those who do not share the same blessing. This is the reason for the lack of equality in the nation, as stated by the article, making the societal opportunity gap wider and wider.

"Affluent parents also invest more money in their children. Over the last 40 years upper-income parents have increased the amount they spend on their kids' enrichment activities, like tutoring and extra curriculars, by $5,300 a year. The financially stressed lower classes have only been able to increase their investment by $480, adjusted for inflation." This article talks about how higher income parents (Haves) spend more time and money invested in their children and because of this their children in the future will be as successful. This article also states how the gap will keep growing bigger and bigger.

"Obama stands up for students' future." Talks about how Obama stands up for "middle-class families" college saving plans. Obama helps students with their college saving plans.

"After decades of campaigning and lobbying, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, and ensured the equal treatment and equal access of people with disabilities to employment opportunities and to public accommodations. The ADA intended to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in: employment, services rendered by state and local governments, places of public accommodation, transportation, and telecommunications services." This article is a timeline of rights people with disabilities have gained since the 1800s, it also highlights the social and economic barrier they faced and still have to face. The paragraph is about 1990 when the ADA was passed and equal treatment was finally ensured.