Dow Constantine: Inequality is not sustainable
![caption: Dow Constantine in the KUOW studios.](https://kuow-prod.imgix.net/store/3408aec5e0d143d08af83a3009d5525a.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&fit=clip&crop=faces&auto=format&w=924&h=634)
Dow Constantine in the KUOW studios.
KUOW Photo/Jason Pagano
There is more evidence that the middle class is shrinking in metropolitan Seattle. A report from the Pew Research Center says the middle class has slipped by 7 percent since 2000 to just over half the region’s households.
Here’s where our region is different from the overall trend: the households replacing those in the middle class here are mostly richer, not poorer.
Economy reporter Carolyn Adolph discusses this issue with King County Executive Dow Constantine.