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The last decade saw considerable concern over rising income inequality in the United States. Over the past few years, several researchers, including my colleagues and I at Ball State University, have argued that regional inequality is an equal if not more pressing worry than widening income inequality between individuals.
Counties in the U.S. have been growing more unequal since the 1970s, reversing a century or more of economic convergence. This is creating places that grow either richer or poorer. Now COVID is worsening…
