Future of Skilled Nursing Facilities: Medical Model vs. Social Model

Brittany LamberthProfessor Wells English 102June 15, 2018Paul Krugman, agrees that the country is becoming economically diverse bit by bit. The middle ground amongthe richest and poorest is vanishing, and inequality is`widespread. His essay, “Confronting inequality” revealsonly how inequalityaffects us, but, as McClelland opposes, how recurringinequality can be. He references a study performed by the National Center for Education informationfrom the 1988 to 2003, in which eighth grade students were arrangedboth by academic skilland the socioeconomic rankof their parents, and the college graduation percentage. If our educational system truly gave all students equivalentopportunities, then we would expect the graduation rates to depend onlyon

In this paper, I will explore the aspects regarding racial inequality pertaining to education in the United States of America. It has come to my attention, based on my observations, that race is a definitive factor that plays a role in establishing socioeconomic status. In relation to socioeconomic status, variables correlating with race that I will be focusing on, is the educational and wealth aspects. An individual’s level of education is pivotal to establishing stable, consistent wealth and vice-versa; the access for quality education is inconsistent primarily among minority races/ethnicities. According to historical records ranging from the year 1980 to 2000, between Whites, Hispanics, African-Americans, and Native Americans, the educational attainment gap is widening (Kelly 2005). Education is seen to be a source of respect and key to gaining a higher income, which transfers over to greater wealth. Acknowledging the slow expansion of the educational attainment disparities, I argue that the society’s perceptions and actions addressing race perpetuates and produces social inequalities by limiting opportunities despite “equal” resources, privileges, and rights through social policies that have contributed towards the quality of America’s education system.

In 1970, the top fifth of all families had incomes that averaged 223 percent of the national average, while the bottom fifth had incomes of 28 percent of the average. From 1946 to 1960, the difference in inequality did not change much, but from 1960 to 1968 there was a slight decline. On the contrary, between 1968 and 1970 the opposite had happen. To further explain the little difference in Income Inequality from the mid 1940’s to the present, a series of numbers and percentages will be used, but only the salaries made throughout the years are the only difference, it’s obvious that the gap between the rich and the poor keeps increasing. The salaries of course are going to be different due to the minimum wages increasing as time goes by, due to the higher cost of living. That does not mean that the Poor Class is living better, in fact, if anything, the Poor Class is having a harder time surviving due to the increased cost of living, yes the salaries rise, but not to the extent to keep up with the cost of living. It’s almost as if a poor person would have to work at more than one job in order to be able to survive, and in most cases that’s not even enough, depending on the situation that a person is in, family size, debt, etc. Due to those circumstances, if a person is working more than one job, then that will limit that person’s time to actually educate themselves at a higher education institution, and that will lead to yet another highly uneducated American

In Thomas Shapiro’s “The Hidden Cost of Being African American”, Shapiro goes in depth on how wealth in America is disproportionately dispersed between different nationalities. Mainly between Caucasians and African Americans. Shapiro has helped paint the image of wealth inequality and has shown how this is even more staggering than the wage gap between African Americans and Caucasians. Some of the theories he indirectly uses in his book and that I will be exemplifying are generational wealth and support systems, education, and the idea of how poverty only begets more poverty.

My own children are being raised by parents with both more money and more education. Yet I do not see my children as having significantly better opportunities than I had at their age” (9). Therefore, although unequal opportunity prevents low income segments of the population from having a fair chance at receiving merit based aid, the same argument, according to Mankiw, doesn’t apply to the one percent in relation to the middle class who all have fairly equal opportunity.

In the article “The Wealth Gap Is Crushing America’s Youth” by Mandi Woodruff, the author explains how the wealth gap is effecting America’s youth by displaying charts of income inequality comparing the children of American families who were born in a low to high income. Mandi Woodruff cites a study by The Hamilton Project, who uses graphs that uncover economic data that show exactly how income inequality can impact social mobility in America.

There are many factors which contribute to poverty in the United States. The first of the governing factors of poverty is economic downturn. According to Kneebone (2010) and Desilver (2014), both the Great Depression and Recession led to increasing levels of poverty due to the lack of employment. Essentially, if companies are not making revenue, eventually they must begin laying off workers to compensate for losses. In addition, collapse of family structures of contributed to poverty. Rushefsky (2014) reports single-parent families, specifically those with female head of households tend to be in poverty due to low wages and or lack of job opportunities, requiring the dependence of welfare programs. Fundamentally, it becomes more difficult for families

More than 63,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have permanently shut down since 2001 and from that, fewer Americans are working in these facilities today than back in the 1950’s. The majority- African Americans and Hispanics are taking up most of these jobs; and why may you ask? Most African Americans and Hispanics have a less percentage rate than Whites or Asian families. According to recent research, the wealthy is equal to the least fortunate of all 41 million African Americans’ in the country. This has only increased because statistics show that in the past couple of decades, America’s socioeconomic inequality has changed drastically. Part has to do with wealth; the more money you invest in your education, the better education the person will have, which usually means a better paying job. The majority in this case for holding most of the wealth are Caucasians. Unfortunately, according to statistics, ethnicities will depend where you stand in life, how you'll be treated, and how your health can be impacted.

The impact on minorities due to inequality
Introduction 
During the course of this class I have learned about social problems within the society in which we live and around the world. It is disturbing to learn that poverty, social inequality, race and cultural discrimination, gender stratification, environmental damage, population growth, and urbanization are among the social problems and controversial issues that still exist in the United States.

Pear also wrote that households led by a person of the age of twenty-five to thirty-four years old, the median income declined by 4.5 percent, while it only decreased by 5.7 percent for thirty-five to fourty-four year olds, 2.5 percent for fourty-five to fifty-four year olds, and 7 percent for fifty-five to sixty-four year olds. With huge declines early in the recovery from the recession, black households ' median income has risen by 3.5% over the past three years, while Hispanic households ' income, unfortunately, has remained flat since 2011 writes Luhby. With income slowly rising, and with a growing minority population, college accessibility needs to accommodate to the American economy.

When I was in fifth grade, my grandfather became very sick with diabetes. After three months of living in the hospital, he eventually died. My grandmother was alone in a house with the closest family member two hours away. She ultimately decided to sell her home and move to Cleveland to live in our house. I am unable to confirm whether she made this decision for financial reasons or because she was lonely. Either way, my parents welcomed her into our home. She lived out the remainder of her time here before passing away when I was in seventh grade.

If the economy is not having exponential growth in job creation, it makes it that much harder for the nonworking poor to acquire jobs. To add to this, most jobs that the nonworking poor and the working poor usually attain, due to educational deficiencies and poor upbringings, are sadly those jobs being outsourced to other countries. With a large sector of manufacturing jobs leaving the United States, it places many families vulnerable to poverty. Even more, they can be viewed as deviant for not assimilating/acquiring the desired skills that the dominant group sees fit for societies contemporary

My father left us when he found out how much money his three-year-old daughter was costing him between surgeries, physical therapy, and weekly examinations. That left my mother with the burden of taking care me. She went to work, did all the housework, and never once scowled, or caused anyone any trouble and was kind to everyone. However my aunt always hounded her for money and made excuses about why she was in need. My mother financially supported her, doing part-time

The sole purpose of this assignment is to discuss the significance of educational inequality and the effect that it has on the citizens of the United States of America. According to Strayer, education is viewed as a social institution that serves the purpose of teaching children basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms. Educational inequality elicits a response of uncertainty from the members of our society. Not only does it pose a threat to the United States of America, but many other nations worldwide. This paper will provide insight on the disadvantages of educational inequality through the achievement gap, location, and one’s race.

After the passing of my grandfather, my grandmother had a lot of trouble adapting to life by herself. So my