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The Income Gap Between Rich And Poor

The Growing Income Gap between the Rich and Poor
In the United States the income gap between the rich and the poor is at an all time high. This fact is very strange to me because I hear President Bush claim that there are so many new jobs available, the unemployment rate is down, interest rates are low, and inflation is going down. These two claims seem contradictory to me, and in my paper I will hope to find out why the income gap is so high when President Bush claims the economy is doing so well. First I will try to explore why the income gap is so high when there are so many jobs available for those who are unemployed.
According to David Leonhardt a writer for the New York Times, the problem is that the jobs available for the poor are not paying them enough money to stay alive. David's article was called Out of a Job and No Longer Looking, in this article he says that the poor people are "unwilling to take new jobs that pay for less, so a rising and growing number of them......


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