{"id":13797,"date":"2026-09-29T06:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:03:59","slug":"discussion-board-5-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/2026\/09\/29\/discussion-board-5-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Board 5.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statistic that surprised me the most was that the richest 400 Americans gained almost $700 billion in just 8 years. That is a crazy amount of money, especially when it&#8217;s more than what the bottom 50 percent of Americans have combined. I didn&#8217;t realize that such a small group of people could have more money than millions of others put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having this much wealth inequality can make life harder for people who don&#8217;t have a lot of money. Some people work really hard but still struggle to pay for food, rent, and healthcare. Meanwhile, rich people keep making more money. I see this in everyday life because prices keep going up, but people&#8217;s pay doesn&#8217;t always increase. For example, someone could work full-time and still struggle to afford an apartment. I think this shows how unfair the difference between rich and poor people can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statistic that surprised me the most was that the richest 400 Americans gained almost $700 billion in just 8 years. That is a crazy amount of money, especially when it&#8217;s more than what the bottom 50 percent of Americans have combined. I didn&#8217;t realize that such a small group of people could have more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12140,"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-13797","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\/13797","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\/12140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13798,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions\/13798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13797"}],"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=13797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}