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Omar Araiza A01176810
Natalia Salinas A01176966
Victor Salazar  A01177143
Jesus Rodriguez A01177074

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Jeffrey Sparshott Jeffrey Sparshott The Wall Street Journal CANCEL BiographyJeffrey Sparshott @jeffsparshott Jeffrey.Sparshott@wsj.com. (n.d.). The Short List of Jobs With High and Rising Pay. Retrieved September 10, 2016, from http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/07/26/the-short-list-of-jobs-with-high-and-rising-pay/

Income inequality: How does your country fare when measuring the rich-poor divide? (2016). Retrieved September 10, 2016, from http://www.albawaba.com/business/income-inequailty-how-does-your-country-fare-when-measuring-rich-poor-divide-881982

Bibliography:Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county(June 16,2016) retrived on september 11, 2016 from http://www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-in-the-us/#epi-toc-1

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The main reason of why we chose this topic was that the income inequality was present in the income of a single person, but after i made a research i found out that also in the united states the income of the families is controlled by only 1 percent of them ,yes only 1 percent, this means that the 99 percent of families in the united states does not even get close to the 50,000 usd income. The 1 percent of the families in the united states had a 25 times higher income than the other 99 percent. I think that the US has to find a solution to this problem starting from a more equal pays in jobs.

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Income Inequality in the Families of the United States 

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Income Inequality in the Families of the United States 

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Summary: In the United States the income inequality has been in a uptrend since the 1970s. The top 1 percent (of a family's income)captured half of the income growth between 2009 and 2013 and in 15 states they captured all income growth. For a us family to be in the top 1 percent there has to be a total income of 389,436 usd, this means that 2 family members would need to have a job  in the top paid jobs (Medics, Marketing managers, and Engineers). Also between 2009 and 2013 this 1 percent of the families represented the 85% growth in all United States, this means that only 80,000 out of the 80,000,000 families in the us represent that growth. This statistics brought that the top 1 percent of the families made an income of 25 times as much as the other 99 percent of the families.

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The reason we chose this topic is because we thought that the income inequality is a worldwide problem that can affect any country. My personal opinion of this topic is that it is not fair for some countries to have a very good income and there are other countries that their income doesn’t even reach the 50% of a country that has a very good income.

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We think this topic is very important because in today’s world there is a lot of inequality between the economic classes. I think it’s sad that the top 62 richest people in the world have the same wealth combine of 3.6 billion people, that is incredible we can’t live in a world like this, we must change that. There is only a few people that are extremely rich at the same time where there is a lot people extremely poor. I think that there's should be more laws making the minimum wage higher for example in Mexico which is about 70 pesos a day, that’s not a good about not even to have a decent life but to survive.

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We chose this topic because nowadays this inequality is bigger than ever and it's good to know what organizations make something to change that. i feel like this is a very sad situation because people are not taking it in count as much as they should, this affect all of us, from poor to rich, this gap separates us in so many ways and it's time to change that, i’m not rich but i can clearly see the gap and i don’t think it’s fair for the people, because we are not giving them any chances to succeed.

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We chose this topic because we were really interested on how the income disparity is affecting the world nowadays and what right now is being done to help solve this problem or what we can do to contribute, we were inspired mostly because several of our members enjoy researching topics that are related to economics or business and this actually made me happy and excited because I am one of those members who enjoy economics and I am really looking forward into finding out more about this issue, what has caused it, its effects on people and mainly, as I said before, what we can do to solve it.

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The Short List of Jobs with High and Rising Pay

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The Short List of Jobs with High and Rising Pay

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Summary: In the United States, only about 15% of the occupations that are available have a good salary and allows the workers to have a decent life, in the new we can see that the most common professions that have an excellent salary are careers related to health care, businessmen and engineers mostly, Indeed, the site that made this investigation says that the salaries are actually getting better but only a few people is being able to benefit from this event and mentions also that the jobs with high income and easy to get are decreasing and this is also affecting the working men making them go out of labor and finally to do one of these professions with a good salary you must at least get a college degree and one quarter of these professions require you to do a specialization or certification and unfortunately the people that go into Indeed, at least most of it, is not interested in these careers.

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:“Income inequality: How does your country fare when measuring the rich-poor divide? 

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:“Income inequality: How does your country fare when measuring the rich-poor divide? 

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Summary: There is people that are very rich and others that are very poor, in fact the top 62 richest people in the world have the same wealth combine of 3.6 billion people. “Japan is the most equal in the world, with only 22 per cent of the fortunes being controlled by millionaires”. A good ratio that the rich people should have controlling over a country fortune is less than 30 percent. The second most equal country in the world is New Zealand is 26 percent. There is also countries that are controlled by the rich people fortune. Russia is the most unequal country in the world (based on % of country’s wealth held by millionaires) which is Russia (62%) than Saudi Arabia (58%) and Nigeria (56%) and more.

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Place of origin: Boston, Massachusetts

current projects: From October 2014 through September 2015, UFE led workshops and trainings for 2,329 participants in 13 states and Ontario, and 115 people from 28 states downloaded training materials from our website for use in high schools, colleges and universities and labor education programs. Our most popular workshops are “The Growing Divide” and “Closing the Racial Wealth Divide.”

Major achievements:

UFE finished it’s strategic plan with a renewed commitment to raise up the voices of low wage workers.
hey led a workshop at White Privilege Conference in Seattle. The Popular Economics Education team hosted a Texas Training of Trainers. In January of 2013, UFE publishes its annual State of the Dream report highlighting U.S. housing policies that deepened the racial wealth divide over the past 50 years.

Head quarters:
62 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 423-2148
https://www.facebook.com/faireconomy/
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http://www.faireconomy.org/

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Place of origin: Paris, France

current project: The OECD Development Centre is carrying out a three-year project, co-funded by the EU Thematic Programme on Migration and Asylum, on the interrelations between public policies, migration and development. The overall objective of the project is to enhance the capacity of partner countries to incorporate migration into the design and implementation of their development strategies, through a better understanding of the links between sectoral policies and migration. The project is based on ten country studies in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Achievements:
forum on tax administration
Phase 2 of the Validation of the Amphibian Metamorphosis Assay
Contact:
head quarters: 2, rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 82 00
Fax: +33 1 45 24 85 00
Twitter: @OECD  @OECDlive
Facebook: /theoecd
Youtube: /oecden
http://www.oecd.org/
OECD is related to our topic because it uses its wealth of information to help governments foster prosperity and fight poverty through economic growth and financial stability. This NGO promotes analyzing and giving results to problems of the population and they have succeeded many times.

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Place of origin: Oxford, England

Right now Oxfam is fighting against something called Tax Havens, this are places where rich people hide amounts of their money, but they are fighting against this because the gap between the rich and the poor keeps getting bigger and bigger in the world and this Tax Havens is what is allowing this gap to increase so that is why Oxfam wants to put an end to this and is making its campaign called “Iguales”

Its major achievements so far have been:
-In Zambia, 128,000 school children are receiving an education thanks to Oxfam because they supported the children with both books and uniforms
-Thanks to the campaigns done in Pakistan by Oxfam, around 42,000 women had raised up their voice and demanded their rights
Thanks to the new improved flood defences Oxfam built in Haiti, 83,000 people is now less vulnerable to natural disasters

Contact information:
Web page: https://www.oxfam.org/es/campanas/iguales
Telephone number:  +44 1865 780 100
Address: Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Oxford OX4 2JY, United Kingdom
This NGO is related to our topic because mainly it has campaigns to actually fight against income disparity like the one mentioned before called “Iguales”,  and also because Oxfam helps the poor people that have to suffer from the results of the income disparity and it does it at an international level.