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America’s Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Replaced by Robots

  • Gap widens as automation takes over more low-skill jobs
  • San Francisco, San Jose lead metro areas with greatest change

Professional Development for Our Robot Replacements

America’s working class is falling further behind.

The rich-poor gap -- the difference in annual income between households in the top 20 percent and those in the bottom 20 percent -- ballooned by $29,200 to $189,600 between 2010 and 2015, based on Bloomberg calculations using U.S. Census Bureau data.