OKC The Fourth Best City for Equality of Income

[Rover]

According to the Brookings Institute out of 50 US cities rated, OKC had the 4th best equality of income distribution. The study looked at the disparity between family income levels between those in the top 5 percentile and the lowest 20 percentile. It actually showed the 5th best growth of the bottom earners over the last year.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/re...-berube-holmes

[king183]

What about NYC, Seattle, and LA? I question their methodology because this makes OKC look good.

[AP]

Here's the data. Couldn't find a way to format it correctly here.

[AP]

Tulsa vs OKC

[Teo9969]

This is awesome!!

This is the kind of thing that I think can bode well for OKC in the long run.

Something I found interesting: This is a plot chart of the top 50 cities where the x-axis plots their political leanings from left (liberal) to right (conservative) and where the y-axis plots their income disparity from least disparate (0) to most disparate (50)



[Edited for better graphic and to add hyperlink]

[AP]

What data did you use for political leaning?

[Teo9969]

AP, I just added a hyper link in my first post to that data:

The most liberal and conservative cities revealed in one chart | WashingtonExaminer.com

[Plutonic Panda]

Funny how the most liberal cities seem to be the most desirable and appealing; to me at least.

[Rover]

I can see where JTF gets flack from his ultra conservative ilk...only 4% of them even want to live in a city.

[Mel]

There is too much math in this thread. It makes my brain itch.

[Teo9969]

Funny how the most liberal cities seem to be the most desirable and appealing; to me at least.

It's not really a surprise. We all know that big-time metropolitan areas are generally quite liberal.

[onthestrip]

My guess is the reason we are good on income equality is because overall, our incomes arent that high. Go to wealthier cities in wealthier states and Im sure inequality goes up.

[Rover]

My guess is the reason we are good on income equality is because overall, our incomes arent that high. Go to wealthier cities in wealthier states and Im sure inequality goes up.

Are you saying that conservatism isn't that effective in growing economies?