"Local public high school students saved more than $9 million in college tuition last year by passing Advanced Placement exams before graduating, but the results were heavily influenced by students in a regional school for the academically gifted and in five largely affluent suburban schools. In the city of Richmond, students at three of the eight high schools didn't record a single passing score, and students in the city as a whole earned only about $150,000 worth of tuition, based on the cost of a three-credit class at Virginia Commonwealth University. Across the city and in the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico, students at schools in older areas and with predominantly minority enrollments took fewer AP classes and performed at lower levels on the exams." This article talked about how students living in older areas received minority enrollments and also performed low on the tests. This proves that there is opportunity gap because of the old area influencing the students (Reid).

""The 400 richest people in the United States have more wealth than the bottom 150 million put together," said Berkeley Professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on a recent CNNMoney panel on inequality. Meanwhile, the median wage earner in America took home 9% less last year than in 1999. But the rising income gap is manifesting itself in American society in other ways too. Social scientists have long said income inequality is bad for society. Yet popular measures of social stability -- crime rates, voter non-participation -- have been going down over the last couple of decades." The article talks about how income inequality is very bad for america and that it needs to be discussed. It effects economic growth and ever peoples' lifespan.