Stratification-Inequality in the October 01,

Stratification-Inequality

In the October 01, 2001 issue of "Ethics and International Affairs," Nancy Birdsall comments that the high and growing inequality is present not only in some industrialized countries, but in many of the world's developing countries, as well as transitional, post-Communist economies (Birdsall pp). In the July 01, 1996 issue of the "New England Economic Review," Katharine Bradbury examines factors that contributed to the reasons why the incomes of U.S. families became more unequal during the 1980's (Bradbury pp). She states that changes in the economic factors and family structure have been associated with rising family income inequality during the last two decades, and believes that the increase in single parenthood and the growing wage premium to college education play key roles, and that in some regions, part-time work, low labor force participation, and minority population are associated with greater inequality (Bradbury pp). In the June 01, 2003 issue of the "University of Pennsylvania Law Review," Deborah Malamud examines how American see themselves, and claims that the U.S. stands as the model of the classless society, in which most people think of themselves as middle class or at least believe that they can be with hard work and a little luck, and that "middle-classness is the socioeconomic face of Americanness" (Malamud pp). The recognized exception is the chronic poor who are seen as an aberration, not evidence of a general system of class in the United States (Malamud pp). In a 2003 issue of Monthly Review, Tony Platt writes that the U.S. has the most regressive system of welfare for the poor among developed nations and in recent years it has become even more punitive (Platt pp).