Americans see growing gap between rich and poor | Pew Research Center - 6 views
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hcps-ringberar on 02 Feb 15"A substantial majority of Americans (65%) said in an July 2012 Pew Research survey that they believed the income gap between the rich and poor had widened over the last decade. Just 20% said it had stayed the same and 7% said it was smaller. Most of those (57%) who believed the gap had grown said it was a bad thing for society." This article discusses the general public's idea of the growing gap between the income of the rich and poor. Many do in fact believe that this difference has been increases for the last ten years. However, there are many different agreeable reasons for why people believe the rich are just getting richer. Some say intelligence is a key factor when discussing income, which is true, but richer people also tend to be greedy in a democratic point of view. Also discussed in the article were the opinions on what kind of people receive a smaller income. Two major factors included were race and amount of effort applied in educations (what level of degree/education they received).