Social Equity: Equity Vs. Social Inequity

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Equity vs. Social Inequity • According to Kranich (2005), equality by design addresses what the Constitution was said to be developed on that all men are created equal before God and before law. Unfortunately, the equality is based on advantages and disadvantages. In America it speaks to people’s ability to reap the fruits of a good society. In layman’s terms since we all bleed red blood we are all supposed to be equal. • Equity speaks to fairness as people’s ability to access things and when talking fairly it is the ability to access things fairly. In other words, if one group has access say to education, then all groups should have access to the same education, the same quality of education (Kranich, 2005). • Throughout American history, …show more content…

The results, inequality, the very rich (top 1%) economic gains concentrated on them, without interruption since the 80’s, with no trickle down (Hacker & Pierson, 2010) to the poor (99%) (middle class working people and below poverty people). Again, shifts in big business making major contributions to politicians of course gives them their ear and created more business politics then for the people by the people, politics. All of this and changes in regulation and deregulation have helped to create, conflicts of interest and politics as it is today; slanted and in full support of social inequity. I googled Equality vs. social equity and choose an article by Darrow Miller “Is Social Justice about Equality or Equity/”, and in the article he so eloquently used an example of two children and one vial of insulin, one was a diabetic and one was not. He pushed the equality to, do you divide the insulin between them and give half and half or do you give it to the diabetic. The answer is obvious, though they are equal as children, it makes sense to deal with the differences and the needs of the

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