Watch 4 Decades of Inequality Drive American Cities Apart
Watch 4 Decades of Inequality Drive American Cities Apart
The biggest metropolitan areas are now the most unequal.
Dec 18, 2019
In 1980, highly paid workers in Binghamton, N.Y., earned about four and a half times what low-wage workers there did. The gap between them, in a region full of I.B.M. executives and manufacturing jobs, was about the same as the gap between the workers near the top and the bottom in metro New York.