STATE MECHANISMS FOR ENSURING SOCIAL EQUALITY

Abstract

The article examines the problem of ensuring social equality as one of the priority areas of modern state policy, which affects the level of social cohesion, economic stability and democratic development of society. Despite the existence of a legal framework, there is a significant gap between the minimum and maximum wages in Ukraine.The study analyzed the work of such domestic and foreign scholars who examined the theoretical and methodological foundations of social justice, mechanisms for overcoming inequality, and the role of the state in redistributing resources.However, in the contemporary Ukrainian scientific discourse, the issue of ensuring socially fair incomes of citizens remains unresolved due to the influence of previously unforeseen factors and their emergent manifestations. The article examines the problem of ensuring social equality as one of the priority areas of modern state policy, which affects the level of social cohesion, economic stability and democratic development of society. Despite the existence of a legal framework, there is a significant gap between the minimum and maximum wages in Ukraine.The study analyzed the work of such domestic and foreign scholars who examined the theoretical and methodological foundations of social justice, mechanisms for overcoming inequality, and the role of the state in redistributing resources.However, in the contemporary Ukrainian scientific discourse, the issue of ensuring socially fair incomes of citizens remains unresolved due to the influence of previously unforeseen factors and their emergent manifestations.The purpose of the article is to study the problem of social inequality and the State mechanisms which ensure its regulation and resolution. In the course of the study, the author examines the theoretical aspect of ensuring social equality, which is built and proclaimed by the State as a combination and complementarity of the State policy areas, and the vectors of the State policy in the area of social equality, which include a system of economic, social and legal measures, in particular: tax and budget policy, labor market regulation, educational policy, health care, and legal regulation.The article provides an overview of the level of salaries of officials in some institutions of our country in 2024 and characterizes the gap between the minimum and maximum salaries in some foreign countries. The author highlights the state mechanisms designed to help reduce social inequality and approaches to setting the salary of officials in our country.The author presents the basic principles of calculating the salaries of officials in certain foreign countries and formulates proposals for introducing a system of balanced state mechanisms that not only limit the excessive concentration of income in the upper segment, but also stimulate the gradual equalization of starting opportunities for low-paid groups.