{"id":13639,"date":"2026-09-20T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/?p=13639"},"modified":"2026-09-20T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:21:02","slug":"discussion-board-5-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/2026\/09\/20\/discussion-board-5-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Board 5.3 &#8211; Kailynn Cambi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statistic on wealth inequality in the US that made the biggest impression on me was that a very small percentage of people own a very large share of the wealth in the United States. This stood out to me because it shows how unevenly wealth is distributed and how much economic power is concentrated among a small group of people. As it is not a surprise it still shocks me how we are still letting this system run for so long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One implication of having such large wealth inequalities is that wealthy people have more opportunities and resources than people with less wealth. We can see this in everyday life through differences in housing, education, healthcare, and access to better opportunities. Some families can easily afford expensive schools or neighborhoods. While other families struggle to pay for basic needs. This shows how wealth inequality can affect people&#8217;s everyday lives and opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statistic on wealth inequality in the US that made the biggest impression on me was that a very small percentage of people own a very large share of the wealth in the United States. This stood out to me because it shows how unevenly wealth is distributed and how much economic power is concentrated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-5-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13641,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639\/revisions\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}