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Summary Of Jill Lepore's Article 'Economic Inequality'

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On March 16th, 2015 Jill Lepore wrote an article that was published by The New Yorker entitled “Richer and Poorer Accounting for inequality”. Inside this 10 paged article Jill Lepore dives into an economic issue of an growing gap between the common wealth of the people and the rich. These issues were based greatly on a statistical chart called the “Gini index” for which Jill Lepore used to form a better picture of what is going on in our society. Jill Lepore shows this by stating on page 2 “Economic inequality has been an academic specialty at least since Gini first put chalk to chalkboard.” Using a form of Ethos. This rhetorical strategy of ethos was further shown by referencing many other publishers as well as Authors such as: Oxford University, Anthony Atkinson, Robert Putnam, Harvard university and Steve Fraser. This method, especially when talking about economics is essential for proving any point for a sophisticated audience of which this was intended for. …show more content…

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