Meanwhile, segregation by economic status has increased by roughly 50 percent since 1991. The two co-authors, who presented their findings at a May 6 conference, also created an interactive map ...

Economic segregation was similarly stark. On average, the enrollment of impoverished students fluctuated by 5.2 percentage points between neighboring school districts. Yet along the 100 most ...

Since the ’80s the US has experienced not only a steady increase in income inequality, but also a contemporaneous increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census data, we document a ...