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Originally Posted by ardecila
Maybe that map is true but I quibble a bit with the methodology of using per capita income instead of household income. What you're seeing here isn't necessarily income inequality, but differences in birth rates.
Under a per capita measurement, a single person making $100K a year appears twice as wealthy as a (traditional) family with two kids and each parent making $100K each. Is the single person's standard of living twice as high as that of the family?
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That's part of it but even with that switch in metrics, the results will be the same so tomatoe tomato, potatoe, potato.