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The Gini coefficient measures income inequality in a population. A fun reminder that someone’s yacht is your student loan.

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The Gini coefficient is usually shown on a 0 to 1 scale (or 0 to 100): 0 means perfect equality and 1 means maximum inequality. It’s useful for comparisons, but results can shift depending on whether you measure pre-tax vs post-tax income and how surveys are run.

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