Two communities that are worlds apart

December 18, 2011

The Boston Globe

“You’re talking about people in the same state, but it looks like different worlds to me,’’ said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies and author of “Recapturing the American Dream,’’ an analysis of the Massachusetts economy over the past three decades. “This is not the way our state used to be - back in 1979, we were among the national leaders in income equality. Now, we’re a national leader in inequality.’’

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