15 page paper - PSYCH

The community problem I chose to identify is economic inequality. Economic inequality is defined as the way income is distributed in an uneven manner among the U.S. Economic inequality doesn’t receive enough attention and people that aren’t part of the static don’t care. This is also because it’s more common in urban communities. The gap from the rich and poverty keep growing larger. Due to this problem, the urban community also faces other challenges. These challenges include homelessness, unemployment, and so on. I would evaluate this problem by adding jobs, more resources to help people ween of governmental help, and push those to do things they wanted to do to provide a better environment for their families.

Goldberg, G.S. (2012). Economic Inequality and Economic Crisis: A Challenge for Social Workers, Vol 57, No.3, pp.211-214. This article speaks of the role of social workers as it relates to the clients they serve that are effected by economic inequalities. The economic inequalities are more prominent amongst urban communities. Social workers service clients that have been effected by homelessness and unemployment. Social workers have been providing housing and employment resources to their clients as a result of social inequalities. These services have drastically increased over the past three decades due to the rise in economic inequalities.

Cantante, F. (2016). Trends in Income Inequality: Comparing the United States and Portugal, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 15:3, pp 367-86. This article does a comparison between economic inequalities within the United States and Portugal. The comparison shows that there is differences and similarities amongst the two countries. The main is difference is that the United States has a political stance on why their economy has inequalities. The similarity between them is their high mortality rate primarily in lower economic neighborhoods. The two countries are ranked the highest with economic inequalities.

Stiglitz, J.E. (2014). Inequality and Economic Growth. Pp 134-149. This article is about how economic growth influences our society by providing increased wealth and higher learning standards to everyone. Resources made available to rich people would also be made available to poor people. Inequality, is rising rapidly within the United States. Marginal productivity theory explains why it occurs and the justification for it. Excessive inequalities tend to lead to a weaker economic performance has been proven by this theory.

Mode, N. (2016). Race, Neighborhood Economic Status, Income Inequality and Mortality, 11:5, pp 1-14. Mortality rates have increased mostly in urban communities due to its economic status. People whom reside in urban communities tend to have lower paying jobs, increased unemployment and homelessness in their neighborhoods. Statistics show that African American males primarily reside in urban neighborhoods are below the poverty line. Race plays a role in economic inequality. A census conducted in 1995, suggests that African Americans were 1.6 times greater at a mortality risk than any other race due to lower socioeconomic status.

Saiz, I. (2017). Tackling Inequality through the Sustainable Development Goals: human rights in practice. International Journal of Human Rights, 21:8, pp 1029-1049. This article is about how human rights have been effected by economic inequality. Future reports speak of decreasing inequalities within the countries. Basic human rights have been minimized as a result of economic inequality. This presents as a global problem.