This article takes a similar approach as Sokoloff and Engerman's article- geography determines income inequality. Silicon Valley & New York has always "attracted" the best and brightest. These cities have thrived for decades, but also gotten very expensive to live in. Talent is attracted here, but then low-income workers are pushed out when they can no longer afford living there. Therefore, richer families will cluster in richer neighbors & low-income families will have to leave. This takes them further from opportunities in the city, and the gaps will continue to grow between the haves and the have-nots.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-should-be-worried-about-americas-smartest-cities/249208/
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