Quote (Bazi @ Dec 11 2014 08:18pm)
This is not necessarily my view with income equality, more just observation
In this country there is a direct correlation with moving up the income ladder and the level of education a person has. I'm not saying a person who has no formal education will fail or a person with a formal education will move up, but on average this is the trend. This is a trend that every demographic (poor/rich, black/white) knows to some degree.
This formula success is available to every citizen of the country, it is just up to the individual what they want to achieve in their life. However, I truly understand some demographics, overall, have it harder than others.
Therefore since there are obvious problems with judging a countries status solely off the bottom/top tiers, we should focus on the middle tier. Obviously you can't look up mean since that places more weight on bottom/top tiers so let's look at median. Median income is approx 43k, about 17k less than the mean income of 60k. First time I'm looking this up, honestly quite a shock. This amount is not fiscally feasible in the contemporary era to raise a family unless you are guru budgeter. I agree there is a disparity in incomes and the middle class needs perhaps more support. Question is what to do?
i believe the answer lies in education and tax incentives
there are a lot of people trapped in dead end jobs with an obsolete set of skills and they need to acquire new skills/training/knowledge to get better jobs and contribute more to society
maybe get something going with private businesses involved in the mix so they can fund the training/temporary work (i don't trust public institutions to provide adequate training) in exchange for tax benefits while developing a pool of potential employees with skills that are in demand
even if they don't get hired right away by whatever private business conducts the training, in the end they'd at least now have a marketable set of skills/talents they can use to seek better opportunities
as an example i took an income tax preparation course with a major tax firm this past year, did well on the exam so they offered me a job (which my dad insisted i take
) and i ended up doing taxes for individuals part time
while it didn't mean much to me i realized this was a great opportunity for anyone trying to get their foot in the door to this line of work, would probably need the govt to keep it open by footing the bill for the course (was only $500) but you get the idea i'm going for here