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Income inequality in America has been growing rapidly, and is expected to increase [PDF]. While the widening wealth gap is a hot topic in the media and on the campaign trail, there's quite a disconnect between the perceptions of economists and those of the general public.
For instance, surveys show people tend to underestimate the income disparity between the top and bottom 20% of Americans, and overestimate the opportunity for poor individuals to climb the social ladder. Additionally, a majority of adults believe that corporations conduct business fairly despite evidence to the contrary and that the government should not act to reduce income inequality.
Even though inequality is increasing, Americans seem to believe that our social and economic systems work exactly as they should. This perspective has intrigued social scientists for decades. My colleague Andrei Cimpian and I have demonstrated in our recent research that these beliefs that our society is fair and just may take root in the first years of life, stemming from our fundamental desire to explain the world around us.
http://theconversation.com/lifes-not-fair-so-why-do-we-assume-it-is-45981
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @11:06PM
If White people are so bad and racist as you say. Then why is it that white people were the first and only race to eliminate slavery across the entire planet. Why is it that every race on the planet need to move into white countries. Is it so that they can get a real good close look at all that racism or because whites are more fair than their own race.. Get over your self and look up the statistics. For example black people in the usa are targeted more fro speeding,this is true.Why? because they on average speed twice as much as whites (http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_2_the_racial_profiling.html)