Proponents say the new program could help close the glaring racial wealth gap in D.C.

Today, almost a quarter of all tax filers in D.C. earn above six figures — a significant increase over 10 years ago. That puts pressure on the housing market.

The city and its suburbs are seeing increasing concentrations of wealth, as measured by households earning more than $200,000 a year at least.

Esri’s study notes Capitol Hill is an outlier on city’s lower-income eastern side.

And if your net worth is about $720,000, you’re “financially comfortable.”

The Washington area continues to be home to most of the list of the United States’ 10 richest counties, but the gap between the region’s highest and lowest earners continues to expand, according new Census data.

Death and taxes are but two of the only certainties in life, and even in death the government will get you on taxes. D.C. certainly isn’t complaining about that, though.

Over the course of the four months that they remained at McPherson Square, Occupy D.C. protesters complained of growing income inequality throughout the U.S. Little did they know that they were camping out in one of the most unequal places in the country.

Ever since the Occupy Wall Street movement coined the protest slogan “We are the 99 percent!”, it has been bandied around as an admonition of the income inequality that has grown through the U.S. in recent years. But as anyone will tell you, the 99 percent isn’t a homogenous group, much less do all its members have the same interests, ideological inclinations or even incomes. Neither do members of the hated 1 percent, it seems.

Today the Post looked at the net worths of current and former members of Congress, as the wealth gap between elected officials and ordinary Americans continues to grow. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is doing just fine.