Income Inequality in Birmingham, Alabama

| April 27, 2017 

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Income inequality is rampant in Alabama. In Jefferson County alone, the top 1% of wage earners make 25 times more than the remaining 99%. Experts say there are three factors leading to this disparity that ultimately create in some cases insurmountable obstacles to prosperity: educational opportunities, poverty and crime. We talk this with Nick Patterson, editor of the weekly newspaper Weld.

 

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