One chart shows the staggering income inequality in Atlanta, SF, Miami, Boston, other cities

[Newsjock]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/21/how-rich-is-too-rich-it-depends-on-where-you-live/

Do healthier cities experience greater income inequality? That’s one of the implications of a new Brookings Institution study released this week. Larger, more dynamic cities – think New York, San Francisco and DC – are more unequal than their smaller, less economically-diverse counterparts. As it turns out, a rising tide doesn’t necessarily lift all boats.

... The chart below breaks out the detail for the 20th, 50th, and 95th income percentiles in the 50 cities Brookings studied. One striking finding? In each city the median wage is a lot closer to the bottom of the income distribution than it is to the top.

[jsr]

1. Look at DC.

[El_Johns]

2. "In each city the median wage is a lot closer to the bottom of the income distribution than

it is to the top."

[Igel]

3. Which is why whenever you see statistics

you want to see not just the median and mean, but also the standard deviation and skew. Kurtosis is good, if you can make sense of it.

Of course, given median and mean you get a sense of the skew. But I'm not sure expecting income distribution to be a symmetrical bell curve is a reasonable null hypothesis.