Wealth Disparity In America

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As one of America’s earliest democratic socialists, I believe that the most pressing issue facing our country today is the ever-widening gap between the few wealthy elite and the impoverished masses. This divide is an infected wound that, if left unattended, threatens to tear the nation apart. I grew up sleeping at the foot of my parents’ bed in tiny, cramped apartments in the New York City slums, which, when held up against visits to my wealthy relatives in Maryland, raised for me the issue of wealth disparity. I graduated from what is now the City University of New York at age eighteen, before going on to Columbia College for two more years. Though I was lucky to attend these schools, I feel as though the American education system has failed