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Analysis Of Confronting Inequality By Paul Krugman

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In the very informative article “Confronting Inequality” written by Paul Krugman, Krugman asserts that we the people should care about high and rising inequality; in view of the fact that few Americans trust the government, all Americans don’t really have an equal opportunity, and the fact that many families took on housing debt because they wanted their kids to be in a good school district, just a few reasons on why we should care. In the text he talks about the repercussions this matter causes on society along with a variation of statics and blunt quotes that back up his theory. Krugman also gives his own solutions on how to improve these issues of our broken society. The factual quotes and statistics used in the article that Krugman …show more content…

“” In a world of have and have-nots, those at either end of the economic spectrum have little reason to believe that ‘most people can be trusted’ . . . social trust rests on a foundation of economic equality.””(pg.594) That quote is from political scientists Eric Uslaner, and Mitchell Brown. Krugman used the quote to point out how the economy has changed drastically over time. To sum it up, Americans once trust the government but now most don’t. Why is this? Probably because the government proves to be unfair to vastly low income families, as well as the “middle class” families, and the fact that the government let the 9/11 attacks take place. A lot of Americans believe that the government works properly only some of the time, while the other time periods they are creating unfair, biased, and discriminating rules, laws, and policies to follow. For example, the 9/11 attacks had a major impact on why people don’t trust the government. People were befuddled, scared, and frightened because the government let something this major happen to our country. They felt as those the United States government could not protect them, so why would they trust them, when trust means you have a firm belief in something, and Americans did not have a firm belief that the government would protect them. What if something like this happens again, what if there is another terrorist attack, then what? The attacks resulted in the deaths of 2,996 people, including the 19 hijackers and 2,977 victims. The victims included 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,606 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. People were scared for their lives for a while after the

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