The Wall Street Journal has created iii corking mapped visualizations of how the midpoint cast inwards Philadelphia, Chicago together with Baltimore convey suffered at the expense of the super rich.
In The Carving Out of the Urban Middle Class the WSJ uses 3d choropleth maps to visualize the dominant income groups living inwards urban amount neighborhoods inwards 1970, 1990 together with 2014. By toggling through the dates on each of the urban amount maps you lot tin flaming clearly come across how the midpoint income neighborhoods ($50,001 - $70,000) convey dwindled inwards discover inwards each of the iii cities.
If the maps solely visualized the dominant income groups inwards each neighborhood thus at that topographic point mightiness travel a possibility that these midpoint income groups may exactly travel hidden on the maps. For event the midpoint cast could convey moved to areas amongst a high percent of the super rich or travel to a greater extent than spatially distributed around the urban amount than before. There may likewise travel a possibility that the 1 time midpoint cast convey likewise forthwith all moved upwards into the super rich bracket.
However each map likewise shows the percent of each income grouping living inwards the urban amount for the iii dates visualized. For event - inwards 1970 36% of the population inwards Philadelphia were inwards the $50,001 - $70,000 income bracket. In 2014 this had nearly halved to 18.5%. Over the same menstruation the percent earning less than $30,000 inwards Philadelphia rose from 16.2% to 32.5%.
