Last week, the Brookings Institution released a report on inequality in America's cities and metropolitan areas. Authored by Alan Berube and Natalie Holmes, the report compares the incomes of earners in the 95th percentile to those in the 20th percentile, and constructs a "95/20 ratio" for the United States' 100 largest metro areas, and for each metro area's largest city.
Among the report's main findings: There is still substantial variation in inequality levels across the country. While the usual suspects like the New York and San Francisco metro regions again rank near the top of the list, it's actually Connecticut's Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk area, which contains a number of wealthy suburbs that are a quick train ride away from New York City, that earned the dubious distinction of being the nation's most unequal metropolitan area.
[For more of this story, written by Dwyer Gunn, go to http://www.psmag.com/business-...ities-is-on-the-rise]
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