Thursday, May 5, 2016

TOP FIFTH IS DISENGAGING FROM EVERYONE WITH LOWER INCOMES


Geographic segregation dovetails with the growing economic spread between the top 20 percent and the bottom 80 percent: The top quintile is, in effect, disengaging from everyone with lower incomes.”




Thomas B. Edsall, “How the Other Fifth Lives,” New York Times, April 27, 2016, Op-Ed Page.