"These smarter investments include spending more per pupil in low-income districts, which occurs in most developed countries, while the United States invests more per pupil in high-income districts" This article states the ignorance of the United States to the educational problems of the lower class. Research reveals that although low-income areas require more financial resources to educate their students, only 17 states provide proper funding for these communities.

"The wealth gap between America's high income group and everyone else has reached record high levels since the economic recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09, with a clear trajectory of increasing wealth for the upper-income families and no wealth growth for the middle- and lower-income families." This article compares the difference in income between the American upper class and the middle class. In 2013, collected data showed that the upper class earned up to seven times the amount earned by the middle class, the largest wealth gap seen in thirty years.