[Repost] Income inequality turns "neglected tropic diseases" into American diseases of "the poor living among the wealthy"

On Wednesday Cory Doctorow posted on Boing Boing Income inequality turns "neglected tropic diseases" into American diseases of "the poor living among the wealthy". From Cory's post, "Chagas, hookworm disease, cysticercosis, and chikungunya -- just to name a few. They cluster in the American south and southwest, and disproportionately effect the poorest Americans, who are usually also the brownest Americans." Read the post and become informed on this obvious collateral damage associated with income equality.

Atlanta, again the USA leader in income inequality

Thumbnail: Creative Loafing Atlanta reports that the Brookings Institute, a Washington, D.C. think-tank, published a report showing that Atlanta has the highest income inequality of USA's largest cities. This is the lead story in bot paper.li Inequality. This in no joke.