To the surprise of few people, the wealth income gap among American communities is yawning ever wider, a new study has found. What might startle some, though, is that Teton County, home of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, boasts the highest income from assets in the nation.
In fact, several other scenic mountain getaway communities in the West have become “enclaves of extreme wealth … peppered across the landscape,” noted the study released last week by the Economic Innovation Group. The wealth often sharply contrasts with desperately poor rural communities that are nearby.
