GeographySociologyMathematics
DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2017.3.2.01

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Inequities in US socioeconomic status have reached historic levels, with geographic inequalities evolving across socioeconomic, environmental, and institutional factors.

Abstract

Inequalities among individuals and households in achieved socioeconomic status (income, wealth, and so on) in the United States have reached levels not observed for almost a century. We believe that a corresponding evolution of geographic inequalities in socioeconomic, environmental, institutional,

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GALSTER, G.; SHARKEY, P. Spatial foundations of inequality: A conceptual model and empirical overview. RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017, 3: 1–33.