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INCOME INEQUALITY (GINI INDEX)7
Economic difficulty is not limited FIGURE 14
to those living below the Feder- al Poverty Line, and therefore it can be helpful to look at addi- tional economic data measures for additional context. The Gini Index is a tool that looks at the relative distribution of income within a community and rates
Income Inequality (Gini)
it on a scale from 0-1, with zero meaning everyone in a commu- nity is earning an equal share of the community’s total wealth. Meanwhile the closer the value gets to 1, the more likely it is that certain part of the neighborhood holds a disproportionate amount of the community’s wealth. Commonly, these communities have a great disparity between who can access services and who has the greatest needs for resources and support. Data has not been updated since 2017.
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7 Minnesota Department of Human Services. Minnesota’s Child Maltreatment Report, 2015. https://edocs.dhs.state.mn.us/lfserver/ Public/DHS-5408H-ENG. Accessed September 16, 2017.
