Bloom and Bust

Phil Longman wrote in the Washington Monthly about the United States' spiraling regional inequality and the policy decisions that caused it. 

Despite all the attention focused these days on the fortunes of the “1 percent,” our debates over inequality still tend to ignore one of its most politically destabilizing and economically destructive forms. This is the growing, and historically unprecedented, economic divide that has emerged in recent decades among the different regions of the United States.