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Sustainable Development Goal 4, or SDG 4, is a commitment to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.This goal aims to provide children and young people with quality and easy access to education, as well as other learning opportunities, and supports the reduction of inequalities.
Buildings in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating economic inequality. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, [1] a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness [2] [3] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption. [4]
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
Another just-released study, this one from veteran inequality economist Emanuel Saez, shows income for the top 1 percent has grown at nearly twice the rate as the bottom 99 percent since 1998.
Income inequality is a discussion that’s been surfacing off and on for years now, but thanks to presidential politics, it’s once again in the headlines.
The growth in income was much higher for families at the top end than for middle and lower earners. In other words, the rich have gotten richer much faster than everyone else.
Income inequality has fluctuated considerably since measurements began around 1915, declining between peaks in the 1920s and 2007 (CBO data [2]) or 2012 (Piketty, Saez, Zucman data [15]). Inequality steadily increased from around 1979 to 2007, with a small reduction through 2016, [2] [16] [17] followed by an increase from 2016 to 2018. [18]
Wealth and income inequality in the United States is large and growing. "The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's income every year. In terms of wealth ...