California has No. 1 US wage gap between haves and have-nots
There's a 146% difference between California's top half salaries vs. the bottom half. Nationally, there's a 108% gap.
Jonathan Lansner has been the Orange County Register's business columnist since 1997 and has been part of the newspaper's coverage of the local business scene since 1986. He is a past national president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and a 1979 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.