Atlanta is #1.

[Mustang]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

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The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

 

[1stRambo]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

Yo, if you don`t like the feel under your feet? Get the hell out SOCIALIST!!!

"GTP"

 

[Pogo]

This is hard to believe.
Hard to believe because I don't see New Orleans on the list. From empirical observation I would have ranked it #1 by far.

 

[Freewill]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

You do remember that democrats have been in power for the last 8 years with Obama on top for the last 6? Why does the left seem to keep getting that mixed up? Obama got everything he wanted, from Obamacare, raising the minimum wage for federal workers and wall street reform. Yet as you readily admit things are NOT GETTING BETTER under democrat rule.

So, instead of doing the same thing over and over the people spoke and voted out the democrats, let's see if things change. Let's vote in a Republican president and we will see things change. If you don't like what is going on, and it appears you do not, then you should vote for change. And not the change that Obama promised that has definitely went south as your OP reveals.

 

[Mustang]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

You do remember that democrats have been in power for the last 8 years with Obama on top for the last 6? Why does the left seem to keep getting that mixed up? Obama got everything he wanted, from Obamacare, raising the minimum wage for federal workers and wall street reform. Yet as you readily admit things are NOT GETTING BETTER under democrat rule.

So, instead of doing the same thing over and over the people spoke and voted out the democrats, let's see if things change. Let's vote in a Republican president and we will see things change. If you don't like what is going on, and it appears you do not, then you should vote for change. And not the change that Obama promised that has definitely went south as your OP reveals.

The trend started decades ago under Reagan and accelerated under that idiot, George W. Lush.

Who's been trying to help the American worker the last few years with healthcare reform, increasing the minimum wage, and making college more affordable? If you answer conservatives or Republicans, you lose points for either a low IQ or a dishonest nature.

 

[occupied]

Conservative populism is weird form of elitism, there are the "real Americans" and then there are "those people" who need to be marginalized because they are not correct in their voting.

 

[Mustang]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

Yo, if you don`t like the feel under your feet? Get the hell out SOCIALIST!!!

"GTP"

As a group, middleclass conservatives have got to be the most ignorant people on the planet considering that your leaders are screwing you, and you guys cheer them on as if they're your benefactors.

 

[1stRambo]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

Yo, if you don`t like the feel under your feet? Get the hell out SOCIALIST!!!

"GTP"

As a group, middleclass conservatives have got to be the most ignorant people on the planet considering that your leaders are screwing you, and you guys cheer them on as if they're your benefactors.

Yo, think before you write fool? Why do you think the Tea Party is alive and well? Ted Cruz is 100% Tea Party Blood, and a Constitution History buff, so watch out!!!

"GTP"

 

[Freewill]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

You do remember that democrats have been in power for the last 8 years with Obama on top for the last 6? Why does the left seem to keep getting that mixed up? Obama got everything he wanted, from Obamacare, raising the minimum wage for federal workers and wall street reform. Yet as you readily admit things are NOT GETTING BETTER under democrat rule.

So, instead of doing the same thing over and over the people spoke and voted out the democrats, let's see if things change. Let's vote in a Republican president and we will see things change. If you don't like what is going on, and it appears you do not, then you should vote for change. And not the change that Obama promised that has definitely went south as your OP reveals.

The trend started decades ago under Reagan and accelerated under that idiot, George W. Lush.

Who's been trying to help the American worker the last few years with healthcare reform, increasing the minimum wage, and making college more affordable? If you answer conservatives or Republicans, you lose points for either a low IQ or a dishonest nature.

Stop the presses: Bush, Congress make college more affordable

With little fanfare, President Bush on Thursday signed into law a Democratic bill known as the College Cost Reduction and Access Act that will slash college costs for lower-income students in two measurable ways: boosting Pell Grants from $4,310 to $5,400 and cutting interest rates for student loans in half, from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent.



Basically a Good Model

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) may be the most vilified act of Congress in modern times. Just about anybody can find something in the law to get worked up over: the testing rules, “highly qualified teachers,” funding shortfalls and so on. It’s great fodder for presidential candidates, too, one of whom recently went so far as to blame the childhood obesity problem on NCLB and to equate companies providing tutoring to low-income students to Halliburton. Funny thing is NCLB is actually doing some good things for real people, many of them students who historically have been shortchanged in our public schools.

 

[Freewill]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

Yo, if you don`t like the feel under your feet? Get the hell out SOCIALIST!!!

"GTP"

As a group, middleclass conservatives have got to be the most ignorant people on the planet considering that your leaders are screwing you, and you guys cheer them on as if they're your benefactors.

Once again I point out to you. 8 years of democrat rule screwing the American people and 6 years of Obama's buffoonery. A party can not be in power that long and logically blame the side that was not. Doing so shows a lack of education.

 

[Shrimpbox]

The vast majority of your unequal cities are run by democrats. Every metric of income inequality has increased under Obama but you refuse to,acknowledge his guilt. Your dems are for the common folk won't pass the smell test in 2016, especially with Hilary as your candidate. But please, don't stop lying.

 

[OKTexas]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

You do remember that democrats have been in power for the last 8 years with Obama on top for the last 6? Why does the left seem to keep getting that mixed up? Obama got everything he wanted, from Obamacare, raising the minimum wage for federal workers and wall street reform. Yet as you readily admit things are NOT GETTING BETTER under democrat rule.

So, instead of doing the same thing over and over the people spoke and voted out the democrats, let's see if things change. Let's vote in a Republican president and we will see things change. If you don't like what is going on, and it appears you do not, then you should vote for change. And not the change that Obama promised that has definitely went south as your OP reveals.

The trend started decades ago under Reagan and accelerated under that idiot, George W. Lush.

Who's been trying to help the American worker the last few years with healthcare reform, increasing the minimum wage, and making college more affordable? If you answer conservatives or Republicans, you lose points for either a low IQ or a dishonest nature.

Virtually every large city in the US is controlled by commiecrats, maybe you should try ragging on your own party.

 

[Pogo]

The vast majority of your unequal cities are run by democrats. Every metric of income inequality has increased under Obama but you refuse to,acknowledge his guilt. Your dems are for the common folk won't pass the smell test in 2016, especially with Hilary as your candidate. But please, don't stop lying.

Virtually every large city in the US is controlled by commiecrats, maybe you should try ragging on your own party.

You're actually posting on the internet, around the world, that the nation's economy is controlled by mayors and city councils?

I swear ta god, summa y'all just partisan hacks just post without thinking at all.

 

[auditor0007]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

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The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

Yo, if you don`t like the feel under your feet? Get the hell out SOCIALIST!!!

"GTP"

The ironic thing about conservative's simplistic thinking is that they do not understand that the more they drive this idea that everyone except a "true conservative" is a socialist, the closer we move to actually becoming more socialistic. Continue to destroy the middle class and continue to diminish the working man's wages, and soon you will have the vast majority of people supporting more socialistic ideas.

 

[OKTexas]

The vast majority of your unequal cities are run by democrats. Every metric of income inequality has increased under Obama but you refuse to,acknowledge his guilt. Your dems are for the common folk won't pass the smell test in 2016, especially with Hilary as your candidate. But please, don't stop lying.

Virtually every large city in the US is controlled by commiecrats, maybe you should try ragging on your own party.

You're actually posting on the internet, around the world, that the nation's economy is controlled by mayors and city councils?

I swear ta god, summa y'all just partisan hacks just post without thinking at all.

You're actually posting on the internet, around the world, that you still haven't learned to read?

I swear ta god, summa y'all just partisan hacks just post without thinking exactly what kind of an ignorant ass you make yourself out to be.

 

[OKTexas]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

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The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

Yo, if you don`t like the feel under your feet? Get the hell out SOCIALIST!!!

"GTP"

The ironic thing about conservative's simplistic thinking is that they do not understand that the more they drive this idea that everyone except a "true conservative" is a socialist, the closer we move to actually becoming more socialistic. Continue to destroy the middle class and continue to diminish the working man's wages, and soon you will have the vast majority of people supporting more socialistic ideas.

Considering it been almost 9 years since a truly conservative bill has been signed by a president, exactly when do the commiecrats start taking responsibility for the economy? The dear leader said he could lower sea levels and restore Americas great economy in 4 years or he didn't deserve to be reelected. He didn't, he was, he still hasn't, by your own admission.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Blame Kasim Reed. Atlanta has a large black population.

 

[Wyatt earp]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

You do remember that democrats have been in power for the last 8 years with Obama on top for the last 6? Why does the left seem to keep getting that mixed up? Obama got everything he wanted, from Obamacare, raising the minimum wage for federal workers and wall street reform. Yet as you readily admit things are NOT GETTING BETTER under democrat rule.

So, instead of doing the same thing over and over the people spoke and voted out the democrats, let's see if things change. Let's vote in a Republican president and we will see things change. If you don't like what is going on, and it appears you do not, then you should vote for change. And not the change that Obama promised that has definitely went south as your OP reveals.

The trend started decades ago under Reagan and accelerated under that idiot, George W. Lush.

Who's been trying to help the American worker the last few years with healthcare reform, increasing the minimum wage, and making college more affordable? If you answer conservatives or Republicans, you lose points for either a low IQ or a dishonest nature.

Another ljberal that doesnt have a clue what he is talking about Republican RTW laws created 92,000 in car manufacture jobs alone
How foreign car factories have transformed the American South.

 

[Wyatt earp]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

Yo, if you don`t like the feel under your feet? Get the hell out SOCIALIST!!!

"GTP"

As a group, middleclass conservatives have got to be the most ignorant people on the planet considering that your leaders are screwing you, and you guys cheer them on as if they're your benefactors.

You have that backwards, we vote for jobs, While ignorant Fools like you, vote for hand outs, free stuff and to Legally steal other peoples money

America s New Industrial Boomtowns - Forbes

 

[Meathead]

This might be the kind of thing that you'd expect in New York because of Wall Street, or in Washington DC because of lobbyists, or California because of Hollywood. But in the new conservative economics of the last several decades where the working man (and woman, of course) are getting poorer due to the exporting of jobs to countries with wages only a fraction of what they are here in the US while a relatively small group of others are reaping the rewards of the increased profitability of multinational companies, despite the greater productivity of American workers over the years, this is a trend that shows no signs of changing.

This is one of the reasons I'm stumped as to how and why conservative politicians seem to be riding a crest of populism since they've shown no interest in protecting American workers at all. This is the future, everyone. It's only going to continue this way unless and/or until people start to understand that conservatives will sell the American worker down the drain in favor of corporate profits each and every time because it's their big money campaign contributors who benefit the most from the current trend. Even many Democrats have buckled to big money, but at least Democrats aren't all in the hip pockets of corporate interests like Republicans are.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality
Gap between the rich and the poor grows in Atlanta, Dallas, and more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least for many of America's largest cities. From Obama's 2015 State of the Union address to Occupy Wall Street, the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has been an issue that's dominated the national conversation. Now a new analysis by the Brookings Institution reports that between 2007 and 2013, the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened in 21 of America's largest 50 cities.

It's not just in the cities you'd expect either, like New York and Washington: it's also Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. Brookings Institution defines the highest earners as those earning more than 95 percent of all other households (the 95th percentile) and the lowest earners as those earning more than only 20 percent of other households (the 20th percentile). It then measures the gap between the two, or the "95/20 ratio". It also takes into account inflation.

In most of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rich have higher incomes and the poor lower incomes, than the nation overall. Atlanta ranked #1 as the most unequal city, followed by San Francisco, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C. New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis made up the rest of the top ten.

Brookings Institution's findings "lend support to the concern that rising incomes at the top of the distribution are not--at least in the short term--lifting earnings near the bottom, even in local markets". The solution to economic inequality in American cities is complicated and hotly debated. Will other cities follow Seattle's lead and raise their minimum wage, allowing low earners to make higher wages in high-cost places? Many are considering or already in the process of enacting such increases. However, long-term economic diversity and mobility depends on cities not merely raising wages, but also working to improve education and urban planning.

The U.S. Cities With The Biggest Economic Inequality

You do remember that democrats have been in power for the last 8 years with Obama on top for the last 6? Why does the left seem to keep getting that mixed up? Obama got everything he wanted, from Obamacare, raising the minimum wage for federal workers and wall street reform. Yet as you readily admit things are NOT GETTING BETTER under democrat rule.

So, instead of doing the same thing over and over the people spoke and voted out the democrats, let's see if things change. Let's vote in a Republican president and we will see things change. If you don't like what is going on, and it appears you do not, then you should vote for change. And not the change that Obama promised that has definitely went south as your OP reveals.

The trend started decades ago under Reagan and accelerated under that idiot, George W. Lush.

Who's been trying to help the American worker the last few years with healthcare reform, increasing the minimum wage, and making college more affordable? If you answer conservatives or Republicans, you lose points for either a low IQ or a dishonest nature.

Very strange that you selected Reagan and Bush II for continuing income inequality when Democrats have been in the White House for over 12 years in the last two decades.

Stop being such a hack!