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by Danielle Kurtzleben
Here are 7 more groups who can claim inequality
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement have declared themselves "the 99 percent" and turned their wrath onto the remaining one percent of wealthy Americans, particularly corporate leaders and the financial sector. Though there are plenty of high-income people within America's lower 99 percent of earners, the United States does have steep (and growing) income inequality. After weeks of the protest that has its home in a New York City park but has launched copycat rallies in other cities, conservatives launched "We Are the 53 Percent," a Tumblr blog that mocks the protesters and criticizes the roughly 46 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax.
Varying forms of inequality pervade the American economy, whether people are underrepresented, underpaid, or just suffering disproportionately. Here are a few more groups with reason to join Occupy Wall Street on the front lines of protest:
The 10.7 Percent (Families With Children, Headed by Single Mothers)
Raising children alone is difficult for a man or a woman. But data show that the job is particularly difficult for single moms. Nearly 41 percent of families headed by women with related children and without husbands around were below the poverty line in 2010. Families headed by men without wives present, meanwhile, experienced a 24.2 percent poverty rate.
The 50.8 Percent (Women)
Single mothers do have higher poverty than the rest of the nation, but the population of American women as a whole experiences a different sort of inequality in the form of a pay gap. In the United States in 2010, median earnings for full-time working women were
The 0.7 Percent (Post-9/11 Veterans)
There were 21.8 million veterans in the United States in 2010, according to the
The 24.0 Percent (Children)
America's children are suffering from the nation's economic problems in many ways. Some 22 percent of children under 18 were in poverty in 2010, up from 20.7 percent in 2009. Child poverty has seen a marked increase since the start of the economic crisis in 2007. Nearly one-tenth of children also are not covered by health insurance. And state and local budget cuts mean that schools have been forced to cut back on staffing and spending.
The 7.6 Percent (People in Food Deserts)
According to the
[See which cities have the highest and lowest poverty rates.]
The 0.9 percent (American Indians and Alaska Natives)
In 2010, an estimated 28.4 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives were below the poverty line -- a greater share than blacks, Hispanics, or white non-Hispanics. Median income for households headed by American Indians and Alaska natives in 2010 was
The Less-than-0.2-Percent (Washington, D.C. residents)
"Taxation Without Representation" has become an unofficial motto for the District of Columbia -- indeed, it has become so ubiquitous that it is even inscribed on District license plates. Though residents of Washington, D.C., do have a delegate in the
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