I spent 3 days in Jackson, Wyoming — the most unequal place in America, where the 1% makes more than $16.1 million a year. The experience was nothing like I expected.

The Jackson, Wyoming, metropolitan area is the most unequal place in the US, according to a 2018 report published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
In the Western resort town, the average income of the richest 1% is more than $16.1 million, while the average income of the bottom 99% is $122,447.
That means that Jackson’s wealthiest inhabitants make 132 times more, on average, than everyone else in the metro area.
I recently spent three days in the area, and I didn’t see the obvious signs of wealth inequality that I’d been expecting, largely because even the bottom 99% read more >>>
Source : BusinessInsider.Com

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