{"id":12708,"date":"2026-02-28T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:42:55","slug":"stephanie-cesar-discussion-board-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/2026\/02\/28\/stephanie-cesar-discussion-board-5-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Cesar &#8211; Discussion Board 5.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The statistic with the biggest impact on me was that 90% of American families have very little net assets, while the top 1% owns up to 40-50% of Americas wealth. This was very jarring to read because it solidifies the inequality between the 1% and the rest of the country.  It gives the impression that no matter how hard people who come from lower-class backgrounds come from, they could never reach a high level of wealth no matter how hard we try.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wealth inequality is very prevalent in our society. It looks like families struggling to put food in the fridge while billionaires and trillionaires are able to buy islands, living on with no dent in their pockets. Living in NYC, this dynamic gets played out constantly. Whenever I step outside, I see gentrification. There are so many mom and pop shops that have been pushed out of my area, just to serve as grounds to build another apartment complex where rent is sky high. All of that money roots itself back to billionaires to be able to buy out more shops and continue the process. Comparing Hudson Yards to the South Bronx, areas that are extremely close to each other and just a train ride away\u2014but are in entirely different financial standings. Hudson Yards has condos for comfortable and posh living, while the South Bronx suffers as their culture and community continuously gets pushed out due to poverty. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11316,"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-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-5-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12713,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}