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City and metropolitan inequality on the rise, driven by declining incomes
To understand the state of local inequality today, this analysis updates and extends previous Brookings analyses of income inequality in cities. Like those earlier analyses, it focuses on the difference between incomes near the top of the distribution and those closer to the bottom of the distribution. This analysis examines each of the 100 largest U.S. metro areas, and the largest city in each of those metro areas, using new data from the 2014 American Community Survey.
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Ah, we just think it's bad now, just wait a few years.