Title: Middle-Class Areas Shrink as Income Gap Grows, New Report Finds
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: November 15, 2011
According to SABRINA TAVERNISEs’ article “Middle-Class Areas Shrink as Income Gap Grows, New Report Finds” on New York Time, there is a big change in the number of middle class families in the US. A recent study shows that map of prosperity has changed with increase of rich and poor families, and the decrease of middle class families. The study raises a concern over the gap between the rich and poor in the US. This is the consequence of the change in the US economy with the decline of Middle class jobs and income. The other issue is that the landscape of resident area with the increase of rich and poor area, the middle class residential area is decreasing by day; therefore, the equality of opportunity is also decreased because the children in poor area have less access to good school, education facilities, and the poor areas have less access to public facilities such as park and public transportation.
I do agree with the article in some perspective, the gap between the rich and poor is wider; however, I believe this is just a temporary situation because the US economy is recovering and that will increase the number of middle class jobs. The middle class families who became low income family because of bad economy will have a good change to revise their finance and social class.
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