Abstract The income difference between the poor and the rich has been widening despite measures that have been put in place by the government to reduce it. The government has used progressive taxation as a way of transferring wealth from the rich to the poor, but this strategy has yielded minimal fruits. Most of this wealth that is taken from the rich rarely reaches the poor because of the corrupt system that makes this money flow back to the rich. The government should consider using other approaches to minimize this gap and to fight absolute poverty. Education is one of the strategies that have been confirmed to be effective in minimizing the gap between the poor and the rich. Other strategies include empowering women and fighting negative ethnicity that hinders development. These strategies can help the government reduce this gap in a more natural way than using direct financial strategies. Introduction The gap between the rich and the poor has raised a lot of concern among various stakeholders in the United States of America. Recent statistics show that the gap between the rich and the poor is on the steady rise despite some of the government programs that have been put up to fight it. According to Page and Jacobs (2009), various stakeholders have been debating whether the government should step in with measures that would help fight this income difference between the poor and the rich. Others have supported the need to have government intervention as a way of improving the human development index in this country and fighting criminal acts such as robbery and other related vices. However, other members of society have strongly rejected this move citing numerous loopholes in the current programs that are meant to fight this gap. Capitalism has become the predominant ideology in many countries around the world, including the previous crusaders of communism such as China and Russia. In the United States, this ideology has defined the lifestyle of individual citizens. The rich are using their riches to generate more income as the poor languish in poverty. Programs that have been set up by the government such as progressive taxation have done very little to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor. Some members of the society have urged the government to come up with stronger measures that would help transfer money from the ultra-rich members of the society to the poor (Page & Jacobs, 2009). In this research, the focus is to determine how the income gap (dependent variable) can be fought using such virtues as education, gender equality, and racial tolerance (independent variables) in American society. The paper seeks to analyze whether there is a need for the government to do more to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor. Literature review Education Education has been considered as one of the main ways through which the gap between the rich and the poor can be eliminated. According to Jarman (2012), education has proven to be the best way through which the poor can climb the social ladder. This scholar says that the importance of education has been demonstrated in the twenty-first century where firms are forced to hire qualified personnel in various positions in their firms. The