1.18.2008

Richard Florida: "Bubble Land"

Talk about a mirror into America's economy. Greater DC is one of the most class divided places on the planet. While people in Toronto worry about "three cities," growing inequality and fraying social cohesion, greater Washington is 3 cities - on steroids - a supper affluent global (though largely white) creative class, a large, growing and struggling new immigrant class, and a large, poor and mainly black underclass. You'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see the glaring economic and social inequality and class divide that is greater Washington.

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