Study examines how income inequality is taking shape in the D.C. area
“The report — produced by the Commonwealth Institute, D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute and the Maryland Center on Economic Policy — shows that for every dollar that a high-wage worker earns in the region, the lowest-wage worker pull downs only 16 cents. That is a greater divide than is seen at the national level, where the lowest-wage workers earn 21 cents for every dollar made by high-wage workers.
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‘It underlines that poverty exists, and it is actually in greater numbers in the suburbs than in the core of the region,’ said Benjamin Orr, executive director of the Maryland Center on Economic Policy.”
