No, the elephant in the room is what supposed issues income inequality creates. Surely if there's such a discrepancy in this number between different states tha

No, the elephant in the room is what supposed issues income inequality creates. Surely if there's such a discrepancy in this number between different states that's going to be measurable in some way. My biases align with the sentiments of the article. I think that income inequality is bad, but that doesn't make me immune to recognizing lazy journalism. The article does nothing to question that assumption. If an increase in income inequality makes the difference between "tolerable poverty" and "total squalor", isn't there going to be more of the latter in New York than West Virgina? The map in this article is almost the exact opposite of the one in the article, showing an inverse correlation between income inequality and the poverty rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... So what exactly are the negative effects? I'm sure there's some, but the article isn't helping us talk about those.