Atlanta Has The Highest Income Inequality In The Nation

Essence Magazine:

By Jasmine Browley· Updated January 18, 2023

Census data reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows that Atlanta has the starkest chasm between the rich and the poor among cities with more than 100,000 residents.

The outlet pointed out that the city’s ranking are based on the Gini coefficient, a point of measurement used by economists and organizations worldwide to analyze income inequality. The most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureaufrom

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