Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by income inequality

Before or after taxes and transfer?
The article should state if the numbers presented represent the Gini coefficients before or after taxes and transfers, as these values are significantly different. See https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/637b3a40-en.pdf?expires=1652472101&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=34D4C1EDF75B47FC1AC88BE7C78417E7 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.69.239.95 (talk) 20:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Source
I hope the source isn't too old. This is a measure used on wikipedia for income inequality for nations; it seemed interesting to compare income inequality in US states as well. NZUlysses (talk) 00:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

What good is this?
What good are these purported "facts?"

Say you are a researcher. Okay to give me an OR sentence here, we aren't grading them. The sentence should start with the statement, "Connecticut has one of the furthest, and Hawaii one of the closest income equalities in the country. Therefore we can expect that Hawaii will have.... and Connecticut will have....(something different from Hawaii besides cold weather! :)" (Finish the sentence). I don't see that anything can be judged from this that is useful in any way to anybody. Rich people need people who will operate services for them. Is that good or bad? And so what? What good is this? It appears to me to be just another meaningless statistic.

This could be a professor's insider joke BTW. Sort of like correlating the height of people in states with their weight and grading them accordingly. So what? Yes, it looks impressive. Needs to state something with a reliable source early in the article on not be merely a list of stats. Student7 (talk) 11:42, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Why doesn't the ranking match the reported numbers? Gronteam (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

You would click through to Gini Coefficient to find out what its uses are. BillMcGonigle (talk) 18:24, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Observations
An editor, trying to extract "something" useful out of here has observed (WP:OR) that DC has the widest distribution of income, Alaska the least. But this is an observation made by an editor, not by anyone reliable. To me, this is just one more frustration with this article. The data isn't worth anything and apparently no one outside of Wikipedia could care anything about it! Student7 (talk) 23:42, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

It seems a little confusing to state an inequality index but rank in reverse order having least unequal as number 1.

Keep this article
Since GINI is pretty widely used for comparing countries, it should be of interest when applied to countries with-in a country (and maybe more meaningful). Kdammers (talk) 03:50, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't see why this is even a question. I'm researching the relationship between voter turnout and income, and this is a useful starting point, although I'm having difficulty finding the source of this particular data set from the references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.190.89.172 (talk) 22:18, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

This page really needs an update given recent changes in the US economy, there is some more recent data here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/227249/greatest-gap-between-rich-and-poor-by-us-state/. As well as the general worsening inequality, note also the growing difference between, say, California and Texas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.23.127.25 (talk) 09:30, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Ranking no longer agrees with sequence of Gini coefficients
Someone has gone in and changed the reported Gini coefficients without changing the rank ordering, so that now the Gini coefficient goes up sometimes and down sometimes as the rank increases. Loraof (talk) 19:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)