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I'm shocked that more than a century of policies explicitly aimed at keeping the poor segregated within the city limits has lead to disparities of wealth.

The obvious flaw in the linked piece--in my opinion--is that it links income inequality in DC, which is essentially a unique artifact of our region's racist past, with growing income inequality at the national level.

The two have almost nothing in common. DC poverty is about concentration of the desperately poor where there are few opportunities. National income inequality is about well-paying middle-class jobs being replaced with poorly compensated service sector jobs.

They're similar in that they're both "bad things", but that's about it.

by oboe on Mar 20, 2012 9:32 am • link • report

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