(CNN) -- Last year, after CNN readers voted for me to do a story on income inequality, I spent two weeks reporting from what was then the "most unequal place in America": East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It's a tiny patch of land on the western bank of the Mississippi River -- home to a beautiful oxbow lake called Lake Providence. That lake, I found, is a stark barrier between rich and poor -- and a fitting microcosm for inequality across the nation. My goal in reporting on the parish, on your behalf, was to spark a national conversation on income inequality that could, in some small way, help push for change.
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CNN's John Sutter looks at new income inequality data from the census
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New York County has the highest inequality level, according to the data
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East Carroll, Parish, Louisiana, which Sutter featured last year, drops to No. 128
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Sutter celebrates the news as a sign that things are changing in that rural community
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