Pulling apart: The continuing impact of income polarization in New York State
November 15, 2012. A new report from the Fiscal Policy Institute shows that various income measures all point toward the same conclusions: In recent years, polarization has intensified; and New York has been one of the national leaders in this undesirable trend. The top one percent share of income dipped during the recession, but has started to rise again in the recovery. Further, no state is more polarized than New York and no large city is more polarized than New York City, (using the broadest measure of income polarization, [...]