"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 the education/ opportunity gap affects America. It states that parents have invested in their students a lo because of the education opportunity, but now the separate classes, depending on how much your income is, affects the opportunity for a larger education. It mainly talking about how it is steadily inflating throughout the years, and how it affect the poor, as well as the rich.

"" Romney told conservatives at a Republican National Committee meeting two weeks ago. "We haven't seen rising incomes over decades.… The rich have gotten richer, income inequality has gotten worse and there are more people in poverty than ever before under this president." This whole income inequality thing is becoming much more important to the republicans. Mitt Romney, former candidate for the presidency, told others that the income inequality is becoming greater than ever, and it has continuously grown like that. But, people claim it will become better if someone like Romney, who cares about the issue, will run.