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Lower income inequality = higher self-regard and self-satisfaction with your state, apparently
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Lower income inequality = higher self-regard and self-satisfaction with your state, apparently

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Ted Bauer
May 22, 2014
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Wrote a little about the growth in income inequality across the 50 states from 1979 to 2012 last week, and now here's more, via CityLab. Check out this chart:

Gini

Essentially, the states with the lowest real inequality -- as measured by Gini -- also seem to be the states that have the best view of living there (of course, I'm talking about the people within …

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