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Disabled-worker statistics - 7 views

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    "The following table presents unedited data (including corrections, if any) on disabled worker beneficiaries paid from Social Security's Disability Insurance Trust Fund. In particular, unedited award data may contain duplicate cases." This website has a graph which shows the number of people on the disability program.
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Achieving Success by Closing the Opportunity Gap | Urban Views Weekly: Richmond's Conte... - 1 views

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    "Currently, Richmond's youth in low-income neighborhoods do not have equal educational opportunities. They lack essential resources for academic learning during the summer and after school time that more-resourced families and communities are able to provide. Schools in Richmond's high-poverty neighborhoods do not have the capacity to provide critical, individualized attention, and rigorous, out-of-school time learning opportunities to children who are motivated to learn. Lacking these supports, low-income children are ten times more likely than their affluent peers to drop out of high school." This article thoroughly explains how low-income communities can't afford the necessary resources for a good education, especially in Richmond. Also, it explains the consequences of this. For example, a bright student in one of these communities will lose a great educational opportunity due to economical hardships.
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The Impact of Inequality on Growth | Center for American Progress - 3 views

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    "This fact, however, has different implications for different observers. Many critics of higher inequality suggest that it violates basic fairness, particularly when considering, for example, the divergence of median compensation and productivity growth. Such trends, these critics hold, are evidence of working people no longer getting their "fair share" of the growth that they are helping to generate. Others note that inequality serves as a wedge between growth and living standards, funneling income largely to those at the top of the scale and thus making it harder at any given level of economic growth for living standards to grow as they have in more equitable times or for poverty to fall during business cycle expansions. Economic growth, as this report argues, has become a spectator sport for too many poor and middle-class households that watch as the gross domestic product, or GDP, productivity, the stock market, and corporate profits rise while their incomes either stagnate or grow much more slowly." This article elaborates on the opinions people with different incomes have on income inequality. Also, it provides statistical information regarding income inequality between the middle class and the wealthy.
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