U.S. and Ohio incomes highly unequal

The top 1 percent of earners in Ohio took home 17.8 times more than the bottom 99 percent.

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In 2013 the top one percent of earners in Ohio took home 17.8 times more than the bottom 99 percent, according to new analysis published by the Economic Policy Institute and released locally by Policy Matters Ohio. The top one percent earned an average 2013 income of $752,582 while the bottom 99 percent earned an average of just $42,391. Income inequality in the US by state, metropolitan area, and county, by Mark Price, an economist at the Keystone Research Center in Harrisburg, PA and Estelle Sommeiller, a socio-economist at the Institute for Research in Economic and Social Sciences in Greater Paris, France, details the income of the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent by state, metropolitan area, and county. “Rising inequality is a persistent problem throughout the country