America’s Worsening Geographic Inequality
It’s not just economic inequality—the gap between the rich and the poor—that is growing ever wider. Geographic inequality, the divide between rich and poor places, is too.
Read moreDistressed Communities Index Underscores Economic Divides
New research highlights the widening fault lines between struggling and well-off communities across the U.S. and suggests more prosperous areas have fared better as the economy has improved.
Read moreThe Finance 202: Tracking the Uneven Recovery
From the “two economies” file, the Economic Innovation Group is out with a new report this morning documenting how uneven the recovery has been nationally. It includes some stark figures:
Read moreAffluent cities gained at expense of Trump’s ‘forgotten’ America, study
The economic divide between affluent U.S. cities and suburbs and the ailing, often rural, areas where blue collar and middle-tier service jobs are the norm grew wider after the onset of the Great Recession, a Washington-based think tank said on Monday.
Read more10 years after the recession, U.S. cities with a strong tech industry are the most resilient
The U.S. states and metro areas with large tech industries — most notably Silicon Valley and the Bay Area — are adding jobs and residents and seeing incomes rise at a faster rate than other parts of the country.
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