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Personal Statement: Wealth Inequality In The United States

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My father drilled the words into my head every single day for 17 years, “be apart of that 1% not the other 99”. Raised in a country where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, I’ve been fascinated about the economic theories throughout the country. Wealth inequality in the United States intrigued me. Since I was a kid I’ve tried to decipher what my father meant when he told me to be apart of “that 1%”. Until, finally, I came to understand the facts behind it. The fraction of America that is wealthy, upper class citizens is one-one hundredth of the country. While the rest of the country is either middle to lower class citizens. Or in my father 's terminology, “average”. My interest in mathematics and management have carried throughout
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