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U.S. registers a growing economic inequality

Posted On 05 Mar 2014

Screen Shot 2014-03-04 at 21.16.07The growing economic inequality in U.S. has its greatest passage in big cities where it becomes more palpable and real the big income gap between rich and poor people.

According to a recent report by Brookings, a research center based in Washington, wealthiest 5% of the population in the top 50 cities enters more than 10.8 times more than 20% depauperate, while in the whole of the U.S. difference ratio is 9.1.

According to the document, Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami, Boston and Washington DC are the five most unequal cities in the U.S.

Also highlight the sixth place from New York, Chicago on the eighth and the ninth of Los Angeles.

At the other spectrum of the scale, El Paso, Seattle and Denver were the cities where more inequality declined between 2007 and 2012 thanks partly to have higher minimum wages, which made the least prosperous revenues fell with less intensity.

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