From the editor.

• Position: Editorial

Income inequality--at least as shown in the media or shouted by protesters--is the 1 percent versus the 99 percent, Happily, our author has more sense than to apply such broad strokes to an important issue. In tracking the distance between the poorly paid and the well paid among us, Michael Thompson charts a six-year period running up to the Great Recession, looking at which states had the most or least income inequality and whether the disparities grew or shrank. Many people reading this article may have already formed a conclusion about where Indiana shows up among the 50...