Climbing US Inequality

The US us not as united as before, or at least not as equal. It is easy to take inequality for the norm, but it wasn’t that way a few decades ago. Now,

“The top five areas had median household net worth of nearly $1.7 million. That’s almost 90 times wealthier than the poorest five places.“

And,

“And in some, like small areas of Manhattan in New York City, the wealthiest 10% of households are nearly 120 times as wealthy as their area’s median.“

The first quote is about the wealthiest versus the poorest.
The second quote is more extreme and yet is the wealthiest versus the median.

In larger regions, the disparities are not as great, but that is relative. Wealth inequalities influence things like house sales. Income inequalities influence things like rental prices. Both cases contribute to a lack of social mobility; moving as a means of making a better or at least more sustainable life has become more difficult. Yet another way the US is bifurcating.