My reaction about the gap in the U.S.

Summary
A survey by the Pew Research Center in the U.S. revealed that many of the wealthiest think the poor take a lot of money from the government benefits. However, at the same time, the survey also shows us that the poor need more support, which is said by themselves.
In addition, there are another gaps of thinking between the two. For example, about the role of government, the poor think the government should help the needy more if the government’s debt increase, although the wealthy does not think so.
Their opinion is finally similar when the question is about immigration, but the poor who says immigrates have good effects are fewer than the wealthy.

Reaction
In the U.S., Economic disparity is a serious social issue. Recently, rich person becomes richer and richer, and poor person becomes poorer because capitalism allows taking more money from the poor to the wealthy as business.
For example, costs of food and housing are huge for the poor, they continue being poor. (figure1) They cannot live without them; therefore, they have no money to eat good meals and they only eat fast foods or cheap foods. This makes them unhealthy and their money disappears because of going to hospital without any insurance.
In contrast, the rich scares to lose their money and safety, so they do not want to mix with them. In this situation, the government is only supporter of the poor.
I think the government can decrease the disparity between two groups by supporting the poor paying for daily foods and their home. If the government does nothing to this problem, the poor cannot continue their life in the U.S. because there is no money which they can use.
In conclusion, I want to the government to change the situation.

 How the Rich and Poor Spend Their Money
figure1: How the Rich and Poor Spend Their Money

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