CUNY John Jay College Income Inequality & Community Justice Issue Discussion

I’m working on a social justice writing question and need support to help me study.

Discuss income inequality and why it is a community justice issue.

Please use the assigned readings as your reference

How the Deck is Stacked: Income Inequality in the U.S

American Association of University Women. “Women, Race and the Pay Gap”

Race and the Pay Gap – AAUW : Empowering Women Since 1881

Chapter 5—“In the Shadow of the Ghetto” in Anderson, E. (2004). Streetwise: Race, class, and change in an urban community (pp.69-99). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [Blackboard]

Mankiw, N.G. (2013). Defending the One Percent. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), 21–34. Retrieved from, http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.3.21.

Krugman, P. (2012). How Fares the Dream? New York Times (1923-Current File), p. A23.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/opinion/krugman-how-fares-the-dream.html NO DIRECT LINK

Braverman, B. (2013). America’s Growing Inequality in Education. The Fiscal Times. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/06/19/ NO DIRECT LINK

Americas-Growing-Inequality-in-Education. Mettler, S. (2014). College, the Great Unleveler. The New York Times. Retrieved from, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/college-the-great-unleveler/. NO DIRECT LINK

Food Insecurity & The Hunger Gap

Fraser, E., and Fraser, E. 2014. 10 things you need to know about the global food system. The Guardian, May 1 2014. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/food-blog/10-things-need-to-know-global-food-system

Household Food Security in the United States in 2019 Alisha Coleman-Jensen, Matthew P. Rabbitt, Christian A. Gregory, and Anita Singh

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/99282/err-275.pdf?v=117.3