Every summer, the Hamptons becomes a billionaires’ playground. In the collection of historic towns and villages on the Atlantic Ocean, the streets are lined with designer boutiques and the roads are clogged bumper-to-bumper with Ferraris, Range Rovers and Maseratis. Beachfront mansions routinely change hands for more than $100m.
Life is not so much fun, however, for the army of local people and recent immigrants who work to keep the swelling numbers of the super-rich happy. And as Labor Day approaches – the unofficial end of the American summer – life is likely to get worse. So many local people struggle to get by that food banks have been set up to accept donations and make sure children and their parents don’t go hungry in the the winter when the mansions close and jobs for locals dry up. In fact, 7% of the population now lives below the poverty line.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/14/hamptons-super-rich-inequality
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