All boats sink together

6:04 p.m. Here in the heartland there’s a very tiny advantage to the disappearance of good middle class jobs and a lot else with it. The rich are not that much better off than the poor. The latest study of income inequality in the states by the two Washington-based think tanks makes this point. Not one Midwest state was among those with the greatest gaps between the rich and poor.

Here’s the study:

http://www.cbpp.org/4-9-08sfp-pr.pdf