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Mapping Where the Gap Between Richest and Poorest Is Widest
A new Economic Policy Institute report highlights income inequality across states, metro areas, and counties.
Nationwide, the income gap could be more accurately described as a chasm: at $1,153, 293, the average yearly income of the top 1 percent of earners is 25.3 times that of the bottom 99 percent, who bring in $45,567.
But a new report from the Economic Policy Institute—the the first to include data at the metropolitan and county level—found that in nine states, 54 metro areas, and 165 counties, those numbers are even more disparate.