Examples Of Income Inequality

A voice needs to be given to Armenia and other countries that have suffered from the gruelling grasp inequality has grabbed them by. Inequality can be associated with such words as imbalance, disproportion and variation. It has effected economies worldwide and in some instances it can be seen that “our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class” 20. Inequality impacts social aspects, health and opportunity across the globe and is seen nearly everywhere. The impoverished person you see begging as you walk down the street with your newly prised purchases can be seen as an example of income inequality. “Those with low incomes suffer poor health and low productivity” 15 this essay looks at

Social inequality is accruing when “those resources in a given society are distributed unevenly.” 11 In Armenia resources like water and firewood are proving hard to come by as “over one third of Lake Sevan, the only fresh water reservoir, has been drained” and also there has been a massive case of “deforestation” as the people are trying to use “every available resource for firewood”. This happened after the “Spitak earthquakes”, in 1988 which had devastating results “killing 60,000 people and destroying nearly half a million buildings”. 7 The people were left with next to nothing, social inequality was on the rise as resources were distributed unevenly. Health inequality was also on an upsurge, due to this devastating crises “under-utilization of services correlated with low income of the population surveyed”. 14 This was not just the case for Armenia though, across Europe the health inequality gap seems to be rising between and within countries. “More than five times as many babies die before the age of one in some countries than in others”. 22 This seems like a shocking and deplorable amount considering recent developments in our health services and greater life expectancy models. The hidden truth is that it tends not to be the health care or services that are the primary factor of health inequality but instead “the conditions people are born, grown, live and work”. 23. In Estonia, it is the “poor living conditions which damages health” and in London, it is known that around the city the life expectancy can change from one subway stop to another. Inequality has been around for awhile and is still affecting people and places worldwide. A stop needs to be put to