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"Data shows that 27 percent of low-income third-grade students and 41 percent of those students in eighth grade are not reading on grade level. Only 7 percent of higher-income students in the third grade and 15 percent of those students in eighth grade are reading below grade level." This was helpful because it talks about how the opportunity gap affects people. It helps you to understand what it is, and its effect not just on people, but how it makes certain races look.

This article addresses the issue of income.  It has statistics and discussion of the statistics.

"Across the country, people and places are being transformed by choice or circumstance. We're telling some of their stories this month in a series called Starting Over. In this latest installment, we go to Seattle, where the average unemployment rate for people under the age of 25 is more than twice the national average. Carolyn Adolph of KUOW reports on a young woman who changed her life by bridging the opportunity gap - that space between wanting a better life and actually getting it." This is an interview conducted to address the opportunity gap of America. It offers insight from someone who was able to overcome the gap.

"WASHINGTON - With the American job market surging to life, President Obama plans to use his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to effectively declare victory over the economic hard times that dominated his first six years in office and advocate using the nation's healthier finances to tackle long-deferred issues like education and income inequality."

"The share of schoolkids who qualify for free or reduced lunches crossed the 50% threshold in 2013, according to a recent Southern Education Foundation report. That compares to fewer than 32% back in 1989." Type 2-4 sentence summary of the article and how it was useful. Talk about how it could be useful for others.

"JOFFE-WALT: Well, it's definitely not easy. It can be a long arduous process to apply for disability the first time, the second time. And this is part of the problem with the programs growing. As more and more people apply for disability, there's a growing backlog of applications. It can take two years to move through an appeal for a disability claim. You hear stories of people dying while they're waiting. And while you're waiting, for the most part you can't work, so you're not making income. And then in the end, of course, there's no guarantee that you will get back on the program." People are applying to get assistance for disabilities however there is a growing line. While waiting, the disabled cannot make any income.

"A new United Nations report finds that almost half of public education resources spent in low-income countries of the developing world goes to benefit just 10 percent of the best-educated students, who tend to come from affluent families. The report from the United Nations Children's Fund, also known as Unicef, was released Thursday at a press conference with former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Unicef allies at the World Economic Forum."We need to radically revise current practices by providing more resources and allocating them more equitably," Yoka Brandt, Unicef deputy executive director, said.The trend documented by the report shows poor, developing-world countries mimicking a trend in the United States, which stands out as one of the only industrialized countries that devotes less public money to educating students from low-income families than on educating students from high-income families. " The article is about how a lot of the public education resources goes to Rich Kids in low-income countries. This is have or have not if you live in this countries because if you come from a rich or poor family it will affect you ability to get a good education. Since the majority of people in low-income countries are poor they don't have a chance to be educated and make a change or even get a well paid job to support their families.

"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 is about how important a college diploma is for a stable future. High-school-graduate parents are less likely to invest in their children's future, setting their family up for trouble down the road.

"While most studies look at inequality of outcomes among adults and help us understand how America is coming apart, Putnam's group looked at inequality of opportunities among children. They help us understand what the country will look like in the decades ahead. The quick answer? More divided than ever." This article explains how children from unequal income families have different chances in later life success. Also about an attention gap with college-educated and working-class parents and their children.

"While most studies look at inequality of outcomes among adults and help us understand how America is coming apart, Putnam's group looked at inequality of opportunities among children. They help us understand what the country will look like in the decades ahead. The quick answer? More divided than ever."

"Workers with disabilities have more to worry about on the job than those without disabilities. They earn less than their similarly educated colleagues without disabilities, and this gap widens as they climb the educational ladder, potentially creating a disincentive to climb higher." This article talks about the inequality between people without disabilities and people with disabilities. It provides statistics on the comparison of unemployment, college degrees, and salaries between the disabled and people without disabilities as well.

The $4 trillion budget would hit corporations that park profits overseas, raise taxes on the richest of the rich and increase the incomes of the middle class through new spending and tax credits. Mr. Obama will challenge the Republican Congress to answer his emphasis on wage stagnation, according to congressional aides briefed on the details. The article talks about how Obama is trying to help solve income inequality.

"In targeting income inequality, Mr. Romney joins a growing group of potential 2016 candidates who have listed the issue as a top concern. " This article by the Wall Street Journal goes over what Mitt Romney, a presidential candidate, thinks about the income inequality in the United States.

Short-term economy is looking up, but inequality has worsened, according to Romney.

"Mr. Romney signaled that a potential third campaign for the White House would focus in part on lifting Americans from poverty. He said that while the economy in the short term was "looking up," income inequality had worsened." This article, published in The Wall Street Journal, addresses the affects of income inequality on the overall economy of America. It states that income inequality, is a problem that needs to be addressed. Stopping the chain of poverty in the USA, is necessary to keep the economy going up.

This website is a good reference if you are looking for some backup info of what were the duties of the Roman citizens, from the slaves and the poor, to the very wealthy. 

In this article, it has many information on how the roman republic works, and just how they operate. This is only the overview of what one of the ways they tried to equal everything in Rome.

"Over the last several decades, union membership in the United States has declined precipitously, from 24 percent of all wage and salary workers in 1973 to 11.1 percent today. At the same time, our economy has increasingly begun to favor the wealthiest members of society. The labor share of income has reached the lowest level it's been since 1929, and that diminished income is distributed incredibly unequally (see chart). According to data from Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home the same share of wage income as the bottom 50 percent." This article explains how much of a problem income inequality has become today regarding voters. This can help someone who is researching income inequality by showing them how it influences other aspects of the government.