The phrase "reinforce inequality" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to strengthen or make existing inequalities more pronounced. Example: The government's tax policies only serve to reinforce inequality, as they heavily benefit the wealthy and neglect the needs of the lower income population.
From the historian's perspective, these patterns also reveal another truth about suburban places: their tendency to sustain and reinforce inequality.
But a recent report by Congress's budget agency provides fresh evidence that Bush-era tax cuts have done more to reinforce inequality than to redress it.
Are we moving to become a country where the differences between us are exploited to reinforce inequality, racism, and other forms or oppression?
Young women continue to be given gender-stereotyped career advice and exposed to sexist and racist media imagery – ideas that reinforce inequality and are yet to be properly addressed by sex and relationship education.
Without economic democracy, decentralisation of political power will reinforce inequality, shifting power not "from the state to working people" but to those who already have the money, social networks and time to make the system work for them.
In some ways MOOCs will reinforce inequality both among students (the talented will be much more comfortable than the weaker outside the structured university environment) and among teachers (superstar lecturers will earn a fortune, to the fury of their less charismatic colleagues).Politicians will inevitably come under pressure to halt this revolution.
Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world.
He says he is inspired by events that chip away at the structures that reinforce inequalities, like the ouster of some long-ruling Middle Eastern leaders in uprisings last spring.
He never explores the deeper questions of why giving is good for the giver, or how philanthropy might, in some cases, reinforce inequalities of wealth and power.
Big society and localism must address and not reinforce inequalities and help must focus on all parts of the community: high profile authors have campaigned to stop library closures while in Gloucestershire the axing of youth facilities in mainly deprived areas has proceeded with hardly a murmur.
While Bulloch finds that Siquijodnons appropriate discourses of development, they also reinforce inequalities in practice.
