I’ve always been aware of the certain economic and social bubble that surrounds the community I grew up in, as I have lived in Fairfield County for my entire life. Until now, I never truly looked into the economic status of surrounding counties. Luckily, from the start of my research, a comparison between my town and another appeared to be a widely researched display of economic inequality within Fairfield County. In my project, I focused on a few main drivers of the divide between the extreme wealth in one town, Greenwich, and extreme poverty in the other, Bridgeport. I looked at the history of these two towns to gain some context of the economies of these towns, and I specifically explored areas such education and public policy to see the causes and consequences of economic inequality.
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