Many measures of inequality are used today to show how income/resources are unevenly distributed. The problem arises, however, because each measure of inequality is structured in such a way that does not give equal consideration to all parties being measured or contains other biases. One example would be the Gini coefficient, and how its measure is weighted heavily regarding the middle income distribution class1. Other measures of inequality also have unequal weighting favoring different …showed first 75 words of 1638 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1638 total…certain distributions, but there is not a definite path for us to ascertain. For example, even though the Gini gives middle distributions more weighting, the Gini does not state that distribution inherent of middle distributions is what we should strive for. The increased weighting is only a result of the fact that more people incorporate the middle distributions. The Atkinson, on the other hand, increases emphasis transfers to the poor for all å other than zero.