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How “gentrification” in American cities maintains racial inequality and segregation: Research brief  - Yet research tells us that American cities continue to exhibit high levels of neighborhood inequality and poverty, especially for racial minorities.

The 18 Most Unequal Cities In America  - Income inequality in America is an endlessly fascinating, albeit depressing, topic. But American cities have varying levels of inequality. But American cities have varying levels of inequality.

As Trump prepares for a UK visit, a book reveals how the world ended up with him - Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation from OR Books is a collection of essays that explores the deep divisions in US society. These divisions mean inequality between rich and poor, those with opportunity and those without and those who can access justice and those who can’t. John Freeman includes 36 stories in the book. Freeman is an American author who also produced Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York, which explored growing inequality in New York City.

9 American cities with the worst income inequality - The divergence between rich and poor is growing in some regions, creating affordability problems and straining fiscal budgets. America is increasingly the land of haves and have-nots, but the problem isn't shared equally across the country. Some cities are struggling with greater income inequality than ...

In the latest episode of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, we're examining enormous income and quality of life disparities in some of the most liberal, ... View article...

3 American Cities That Could Be The Next Baltimore  - Issues of racial inequality in educational opportunities, disproportionate arrest rates, and high rates of poverty among black Americans have been ...

The map below, from the New York Fed's study, charts wage inequality across U.S. metros based on the commonly used 90/10 measure of inequality. View article...

The coronavirus is marking with indelible ink the borders of inequality in Latin American cities. The disease, which officially reached the continent on ... View article...

Since 1980, America has shifted toward a knowledge-based economy that concentrates more people and jobs into a smaller number ... View article...

Marches in Chile may also be massive, in the wake of broader protests against social inequality that began in October and at their peak included more ... View article...

America's Income Inequality Is Even Worse Than You Thought - A new data visualization from the mapping company Esri overlays maps of five cities with income data from the American Community Survey, exposing a snapshot of income inequality across the nation. “In cities, income inequality is written all over the map,” says Allen Carroll, a cartographer who runs ...

Highlighting the striking geography of American inequality - Where has wage inequality grown fastest in America ? Its largest cities — including Houston. It should be a surprise to nobody that the U.S. has gotten ...

I pointed out that many American cities run by Democrats are becoming similar to ... If Democrat policies work so well, why is there so much inequality? View article...

The report's authors note that American cities “are home to profound racial inequality” that persists across housing, businesses, and retirement ... View article...

The Debate Over Crime Rates is Ignoring the Metric That Matters Most: 'Murder Inequality '  - As Trump noted in his speech, in many major U.S. cities, violent crime ... vast inequality is one of the most important features of American violent crime.

As of this writing, Chattanooga is still one of the top American cities in income inequality. As of this writing, there has still been no discussion about the ... View article...

Half of the Young People from Poor Central American Neighbourhoods Want to Migrate - Most of them are young people who had to migrate because of inequality ... cities, partly released in June under the title “Central America torn apart.

In Washington DC, zip codes still determine futures - Today, entrenched wealth inequality and differentiated property values have divided America's cities by race, a fact that is unlikely to change without proactive intervention. Brookland's indistinct maze of depression-era blocks is principally home to low-income African American recipients of housing ...

The gap between rich and poor places is one of the dark spots in an otherwise mostly bright American economy. Geographic inequality has been on ... View article...