MassInc: "nation’s largest increase in income segregation since 2020"

Via MassInc:

"At the neighborhood-level, Massachusetts residents are among the most segregated by income in the United States. More concerning still, Massachusetts has experienced the nation’s largest increase in income segregation since 2020. This divide extends beyond neighborhoods and into our public schools. Only Connecticut and New Jersey have higher levels of income segregation in public education.

This latter finding should set off alarm bells in Massachusetts. After all, this is the state where Horace Mann famously pioneered the common-school movement with an explicit vision of using public education to reduce class divisions, promote social mobility, and build a more cohesive democratic society.

The apparent lack of response to the school segregation complaint filed last June by Brown’s Promise raises serious questions about whether today’s education leaders are working to live up to that vision. For Gateway City leaders, it often feels like they have been left to confront increasing inequality entirely on their own."

Continue reading the report:

https://massinc.org/2026/10/05/reopening-our-gateways-to-the-middle-class/