US income inequality continues to grow

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

I'm not saying this is THE answer of why, but I have to imagine that it is a very large contributor.....


-There are 22 of the 51 (50 States + DC) with a Top 1% of over $1m.
-Those 22 have 99 professional sports teams in them. The remaining 29 have 36 professional sports teams in them.

If you lower the threshold to $900k instead of $1m, the numbers become 119 and 16, respectively.

In fact, there are only 4 of the 51 who have at least 1 professional team and are under $900k for the Top 1%. Arizona, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio. That's it. Also, of those 16 teams in the 4 under $900k, Ohio has 8 of them.



In the NFL alone right now, there are 132 players making at least $10m/yr, 46 making at least $15m/yr, 17 making at least $20m/yr, 6 making at least $25m/yr, and 1 making $30m/yr.

In 2011 those numbers were 52, 7, 0, 0, and 0, respectively. THERE is some income inequality skewing for you.

... and there are 5 professional sport leagues.


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Throwaway stat because this is P&R and this post thus far isn't nearly fight-provoking enough:

21 of the 51 voted Democrat in the election. That 21 contains 14/22 of the >$1m and 6/8 of the >$1.5m in the Top 1%.