Its citizens are more vocal, and the government more responsive to their grievances — economic rather than political: the high cost of living,
the wide wealth gap and the inflow of migrants.
One reason major cities see such
a wide wealth gap is that when new generations of workers cluster there, density increases and, therefore, so does property cost and competition.
Not exact matches
Income
gaps are getting
wider, and the
wealth distribution is more and more unfair.
I was a statistical anomaly growing up in New Orleans: a black boy from a relatively well - off family in a city with one of the
widest racial
wealth gaps in the country.
The
wealth gap between whites and minorities has grown to its
widest levels in a quarter - century, according to a new survey.