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Economic Inequality In Society

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Joana Hernandez The economic inequality has existed for many centuries. It has taken a huge role in society, causing a huge racial wealth gap. Throughout the years, the economic inequality has becomes worse instead of improving. The media takes a huge role in the different stereotypes given why people are poor. The main stereotype given to people who are not wealthy is because they are not educated. Not being educated can mean a person isn’t working at a high paying job. The media can be misleading by how it picks the life of the poor. People who are poor are seen as lazy, drug addicts, and welfare cheats. In reality people are being stereotyped for not being wealthy. Barbara Ehrenreich an American author and political activist conducted a field research in 1998. Ehrenreich wanted to find out whether welfare reforms back-to-work programs really have the ability to lift poor woman out of poverty. While she conducted the research, she was surprise how low wageworkers were being treated. When Ehrenreich was looking for jobs, she noticed hotels would run ads continually. Hotels do this because they build applicants to replace current workers who are drifting away from their job. At her first job interview, Ehrenreich got hired on the spot. She was going to start working at a wage of $2.43. While she worked at this restaurant she noticed how workers were treated poorly. Workers had no privacy and managers would be able to search their personal products, if anything was stolen.

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