A report from San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California analyzes growing income polarization across the state even as the overall economy has recovered since the 2008 recession. In Orange County the 90th percentile of families earned 11 times more than the 10th percentile: $203,000 a year compared to $18,000. The report said the gap between high-income and low-income families in California is twice the size it was in 1980. Read more…
