There is a wide disparity between those who have a lot and those who have very little, and that disparity, called wealth inequality, is more prominent here than in any other major developed nation on earth.
." The belief that everyone, regardless of who they are, where they're from, or what class they're born into, can achieve a better life for themselves and their family in this country if they work hard enough is why so many foreign citizens have looked to immigrate to the U.S. But the unfortunate mentality that the idea of the American dream can cultivate is that those who haven't realized economic success and security in America simply haven't worked hard enough.
Leading up to the Great Depression, wealth inequality was a stark reality in America, as it had been for decades and centuries before. But it was the federal government's response to the Great Depression and World War II in the late 1930s and early '40s with policies such as the
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