A remarkable article that has tremendous charts that show that income
inequality (as well as mortality) is lower in Canadian provinces and cities
than in the USA.

But that was in 1991.  What is the situation now?

Dennis Raphael

http://bmj.com/cgi/collection?coll_id=106

Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the
United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital
statistics

Nancy A Ross, Michael C Wolfson, James R Dunn, Jean-Marie
Berthelot, George A Kaplan, and John W Lynch
BMJ 2000;320 898-902



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