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New Study Shows Widening Gap between Vermont’s Upper Income and Others

Income of the top fifth has risen more than twice as fast as bottom fifth since early 1980s.

The gap between Vermont’s highest-income families and poor and middle-income families grew significantly between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, according to a recent study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute. The Census-based study, entitled “Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends,” is one of the few to examine income inequality at the state as well as national level.

Read the Report, “Pulling Apart”

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