n.f.l. zid lana falcons delta airlines and of course our good friends c.n.n. according to a recent bloomberg report based on the gini coefficient as calculated by the u.s. census bureau atlanta now takes the crown as the city with the greatest income disparity in america yes while atlanta may be home to multiple fortune five hundred companies including coca-cola the poverty rate in the city sits at about twenty four percent nearly one in four according to the census bureau in fact eighteen percent of households and atlanta make over one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year while over nine percent makes under just ten thousand a year these statistics prove that income inequality is not just a problem contains the west coast or new york city but is a scourge affecting all communities across the country here to help us better understand what brought the city of atlanta to the top of the income inequality list so we can better combat this epidemic as a whole it as a whole is ten friends and one of the co-founders of the housing justice league and the program dire