"In the late 1920s, the top 10 percent of Americans possessed 84 percent of the country's wealth. Since then, wealth inequality in America has followed a U-shaped trajectory, declining through the Great Depression until the mid-1980s, then steadily increasing since then. Now, the richest Americans have a share of the country's wealth almost big enough to rival those in the late 1920s, according to a new study" This article first covers how the unemployment rate in America is going down. But even though less Americans are jobless, it remains true that the top 1% of America is still getting an unrealistically high amount of that wealth. This has been a common theme throughout America and has prompted several people in the lower-middle class to riot.

"Black males, even when given the same educational and economic resources as their peers of other races, are likely to fall short of their counterparts in virtually every measure of academic success." This article begins by talking about how the United States is the ideal place to get an education, how anything is possible, and how opportunity is plentiful. It then however proceeds to talk about "invisible barriers" that are especially apparent in African American males. They credit support this with statistics that show that African American boys are two times as likely to be held back in school and three times more likely to be suspended. They finish by talking about how it is necessary to "re-vamp" the American education system.