{"id":10991,"date":"2025-03-02T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=10991"},"modified":"2025-03-01T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T03:48:13","slug":"db-5-3-sakaelli-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/03\/02\/db-5-3-sakaelli-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"DB 5.3- Sakaelli Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><em>Which statistic on wealth inequality in the US (discussed on p. 29) made the biggest impression on you? Explain why?<\/em><\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading P.29, I can honestly say that, &#8220;40 percent of families own some stocks or bonds, but almost all of them have investments of less than $2,000&#8221; made the biggest impression on me mainly because even though that 40% of families own some stocks and bonds, the majority of those investments on the other hand are very small especially with most families holding less than $2000 in investments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) <strong><em>What could be some of the implications of living in a society that has such huge wealth inequalities? Do you see this dynamic getting played out in everyday life in our society? How so? Example?<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some implications of living in a society that has such huge wealth inequalities would be poorer health outcomes or the less wealthy. I do see this dynamic getting played out in everyday life in our society, healthcare, access to education and housing and even our social interactions with individuals out side in society has changed rapidly, depending on that person&#8217;s background and the group they&#8217;re placed in or viewed a lot of people tend to surround themselves with people that matches their status\/ social background whether you&#8217;re from lower economic background, people with lower tend to have fewer opportunities to participate in such as education, career choice advancement and quality of healthcare services. These are all happening in our everyday life\/ society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading P.29, I can honestly say that, &#8220;40 percent of families own some stocks or bonds, but almost all of them have investments of less than $2,000&#8221; made the biggest impression on me mainly because even though that 40% of families own some stocks and bonds, the majority of those investments on the other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10268,"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-10991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-5-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10992,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}