In towns with high inequality, the poor pay more for housing

The rich. They crap up everything. I kid! But this says in cities where income inequality is high, the poor pay significantly more for housing. From Brookings: Inequality at the local level may be undesirable for a variety of reasons. It may diminish the ability of schools to maintain mixed-income populations that produce better outcomes …

The bottom’s a looong way to the top

Read this piece, originally run last October at Brookings, on a historic study of Baltimore and its opportunities. From author Karl Alexander: White men without college degrees are better-off because they have access to relatively lucrative blue-collar jobs through social ties within their families and their largely segregated neighborhoods. Eighty-nine percent of white high school …