Atlanta is #1.

[Freewill]

This whole argument is really ridiculous.

The fed has been pumping money into the economy for the 6 years that Obama has been president, where do you folks think that money goes? It goes to those who have money to invest. Which unfortunately most often is not the middle to lower class people. In other words the mere advancement of the economy causes the inequality. If I have 10 dollars and another person has 100 dollars the person with 100 dollars will grow more money then I will if both amounts are invested in exactly the same investment. Both will grow but the two will grow apart.

So why do the democrats and the left wing all of a sudden say that inequality is the problem? Not their policies that are keeping the poor, poor? For the last 8 years we have been under Democrat dominance. For about a year they had a veto proof majority and after that they controlled congress and the presidency. Yet they blame something, apparently that conservatives didn't do, for the disaster they have brought on the country.

The left bitches about the poor being shafted then they bitch if we don't let more under educated and low skilled workers into the country. WTF you can't have it both ways. On one hand they say they stand for the poor on the other they call the poor too lazy to work the jobs the democrats are giving to illegals. Then they have the gull to even blame conservatives for hiring the illegals. What cockamamie thinking is that?

 

[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

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.

Nonsense. Conservatives have been outsourcing American jobs for decades. Prior to Reagan, manufacturing made up over 50% of American jobs. Now it's under 10%.

 

[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

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

There's been a vote for jobs?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Hmm, the city has had a democrat mayor since 1942.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Start a GoFund me page and have your fellow liberals help make you equal.

 

[whitehall]

Look around lefties. Freaking Barry Hussein has been president for a number of years and up until last November he has been able to ride high with at least one part of the legislative branch in his back pocket. Conservatives haven't even had a say in their own party until recently. Is it about unions? How did Detroit work out?

 

[initforme]

Too many people without college degrees is the problem. One cannot support themselves well making something like $15 lousy dollars per hour. For that wage I show up, no more.

 

[Mustang]

Hmm, the city has had a democrat mayor since 1942.

Last I heard, mayors don't set economic policy for the nation. Neither do they pass legislation or engage in bilateral trade negotiations with other countries. If you've heard different, perhaps you should question your sources.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Too many people without college degrees is the problem. One cannot support themselves well making something like $15 lousy dollars per hour. For that wage I show up, no more.

What degree do

Hmm, the city has had a democrat mayor since 1942.

Last I heard, mayors don't set economic policy for the nation. Neither do they pass legislation or engage in bilateral trade negotiations with other countries. If you've heard different, perhaps you should question your sources.

Last I heard every democrat run city falls into self destruction and poverty. I have a long list of those. What do you have?

 

[Mustang]

Too many people without college degrees is the problem. One cannot support themselves well making something like $15 lousy dollars per hour. For that wage I show up, no more.

What degree do

Hmm, the city has had a democrat mayor since 1942.

Last I heard, mayors don't set economic policy for the nation. Neither do they pass legislation or engage in bilateral trade negotiations with other countries. If you've heard different, perhaps you should question your sources.

Last I heard every democrat run city falls into self destruction and poverty. I have a long list of those. What do you have?

Baloney.

First of all, for all their supposed love of capitalism, I've yet to meet a conservative who knew a damn thing about economics and how the economy really works. They just know a little bit about the pie-in-the-sky economic theory of supply side economics which does not work in the real world.

Secondly, cities are at the heart of economic growth and development. for any state unless a state's economy is primarily based on agriculture and/or ranching. But even the most prosperous of cities can (and will) fall into economic hardship if their primary industry fails or relocates. That's what happened to Detroit, and it's been happening on a smaller scale all over the country as manufacturing has relocated to other states and overseas in pursuit of lower wages. And guess what? It could easily happen to some of those states where auto manufacturers have relocated if and when they pull out for cheaper labor somewhere else.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Too many people without college degrees is the problem. One cannot support themselves well making something like $15 lousy dollars per hour. For that wage I show up, no more.

What degree do

Hmm, the city has had a democrat mayor since 1942.

Last I heard, mayors don't set economic policy for the nation. Neither do they pass legislation or engage in bilateral trade negotiations with other countries. If you've heard different, perhaps you should question your sources.

Last I heard every democrat run city falls into self destruction and poverty. I have a long list of those. What do you have?

Baloney.

First of all, for all their supposed love of capitalism, I've yet to meet a conservative who knew a damn thing about economics and how the economy really works. They just know a little bit about the pie-in-the-sky economic theory of supply side economics which does not work in the real world.

Secondly, cities are at the heart of economic growth and development. for any state unless a state's economy is primarily based on agriculture and/or ranching. But even the most prosperous of cities can (and will) fall into economic hardship if their primary industry fails or relocates. That's what happened to Detroit, and it's been happening on a smaller scale all over the country as manufacturing has relocated to other states and overseas in pursuit of lower wages. And guess what? It could easily happen to some of those states where auto manufacturers have relocated if and when they pull out for cheaper labor somewhere else.

So democrat policies cause cities to die. High taxes, Better business locations, etc. Thank you for proving the point.

 

[OKTexas]

Hmm, the city has had a democrat mayor since 1942.

Last I heard, mayors don't set economic policy for the nation. Neither do they pass legislation or engage in bilateral trade negotiations with other countries. If you've heard different, perhaps you should question your sources.

Then why are these big city mayors spending tons of tax payer money going on foreign trade junkets? Houston's mayor Porker has been on several in her 5 years.