America’s Biggest Cities Are Now the Most Unequal

NYT:

“Economic inequality has been rising everywhere in the United States. But it has been rising much more in the booming places that promise hefty incomes to engineers, lawyers and innovators. And those places today are also the largest metros in the country: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Houston, Washington.”

 

Watch 4 Decades of Inequality Drive American Cities Apart 
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Source: NYT

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