Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, visiting the city Thursday at the invitation of the University of Evansville, is a learned and charming embodiment of how cross-border trade, education and migration benefit both the United States and its neighbor to the south. His life reflects that legacy, from his high school education in Wisconsin to his business career with the Coca-Cola Co. It is an ease of moving between two cultures and a desire to improve the lives of his countrymen.
What country are we most like in terms of the distribution of income? Brazil, Canada, Germany, Iran or Norway. If you said, "Iran," you're right. Statistics from the Central Intelligence Agency's 2008 World Factbook show that the economic disparity among Americans put us in the same league with Uganda, Argentina, Cameroon, Bulgaria and Iran. Of course, we are a lot richer than the nations in that second list, but still it seems like odd bedfellows for a modern industrialized nation to keep. (After all, on a per capita basis, we aren't the richest nation in that first list, either. Can you spot the nation that is richer?) This trend toward economic disparity has been building in the U.S. since 1980. During the 60s and 70s, income disparity reached historic lows, making us comparable to C...
The emergence of the widening economic disparity in the US is attributed to capitalism. The capitalist system fueled intolerable competition which brought about inequities mostly manifested in income disparity among the population. The decline in the purchasing power of the poor and the increase in unsatisfied wants among them has bred the disruption of social order. The degree to which the government addresses income disparity will affect efforts to restore social order.
..., the court described the “absolute disparity” test, under which the percentage of African-Americ... of an expert in demographics and economics, who tied the underrepresentation to social and ec...
The U.S. national poverty had its most significant decline since the 1950's. Although poverty rates in non-metropolitan counties were higher than those in metropolitan areas, the disparity between metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties shrank. However, the issue of persistent poverty among non-metropolitan counties is still overwhelming. Most efforts to reduce rural poverty have focused on identifying the differential factors between two regions, such as natural resources, economic structure, socio-demographic characteristics, etc. Few of these efforts have explained why some counties have thrived and escaped the poverty pool successfully. This paper examines both thriving and failing counties - both metro and non-metro - to ascertain the competitive components that reduce countywid...
Capt. Albert Glenn, advisor to the president of the Organization of Black Airline Pilots and its board of directors said, "We have a challenge to help those who have an interest in aviation because it's pretty much a wide open field. Now there's a shortage of pilots and aviation professionals and the idea behind our Project Aerospace is to create the next work force and ensure that we become a part of that work force. He said, "[The issue of access to education and, training for minorities] is pretty much the same as it was in the '70's; there were barriers to getting jobs. Those problems still exist today. Out of 125,000 commercial pilots in the US. today less than 1 percent are African-American and, of that, maybe 350 are African-American females. There is a huge disparity in the num...
..., "It is not a leveled playing field; the economic barrier is that it costs anywhere between $70,000 ...
LEFT: Economic fairness matters By John Horner
...Massive economic disparity has a corrosive effect on society. Take, for insta...
Impact of NAFTA on wealth distribution in Mexico NAFTA has created an economic disparity between the northern and southern portions of Mexico. American manufacturers have favored putting up new factories near the US-Mexican border since the products manufactured in their facilities have to be shipped to the US and therefore have to be near the boundary. This preference is disadvantageous to southern and central Mexico. Disinvestment is certain to result in unemployment and poverty, which in turn is expected to lead to a rise in crime in the region. The ultimate result of this inequitable distribution of investment is the creation of two Mexicos, one of which becomes more Americanized while the other remains a Third World entity.
BETHESDA, Md., July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an address to Members of Congress and participants attending a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, called for a national discussion about the growing wealth gap which he referred to as a "wealth gap Tsunami threatening African American families." He cited the recent Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University study, among other studies, which conclude "the wealth gap between white and African American families has more than quadrupled over the course of a generation; the racial wealth gap increased by $75,000, from $20,000 to $95,000; and, at least 25 percent of African Americans have no assets." According to the U.S. Census data, "white household median ne...
Johnson suggests that the wealth disparity between African Americans and whites compares to t... enforce laws against racial and economic discrimination. Over the years, this Nation has be...
The US has two countries separated by the political line we call border, Canada and Mexico. The economic disparity between the peoples of Canada and the US is of little consequence thus the political problems based on the border as a dividing line were, prior to the 9/11 terrorist attack, for the most part non existent, though there are Canadians living and working illegally in the US. And since 9/11, the political border problems the US has with Canada are perceptions that Canada is not doing enough to stop terrorists from crossing into the US. To better understand. Unskilled or semi-skilled factory workers in the US earn $11.30 an hour; in Mexico $1.13. A US skilled factory worker earns $ 16.90 an hour; in Mexico $2.79. An office building janitor in the US earns $9.37 an hour; in Mexi...
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