From fully developed nations too third world countries, income inequality is still a danger that is harming society today. With more then 1.2 billion people living on less then $1.50 a day, this is social ill that must be stopped. This social ill has a direct harm too any society, as it destroys education, enforces child labor and puts lives at risk. However there might be hope in battling this monster as the United Nations has taken a stance in bring awareness to the problem. As one of the United Nations millennium goals for 2015 is to reduce the 1.2 billion people who are living in poverty extreme by half. This goal was met five years ahead of the deadline set for 2015. Now, more then 700 million people have been brought out of this state of extreme poverty and are now having a better quality of life. However, the battle is still being fought, as there is a fight to help bring the rest of those who are in extreme poverty out of that state.
As a child of immigrant parents, I have a personal understanding of this social ill. As my parents tell me their past hardships of living in Vietnam, having too work at a young age and dropping out of school were two of the major things that they had to face. My mother had to drop out her freshman year of high school, too become a seamstress. And, my father dropped out of college to become a farmer to help his family. So, this was one of the United Nations millennium goal that was personal, to me.
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