It seems important that Atlanta’s #1 ranking on income inequality receives attention in the media. And it is. But the conversations and voices the mainstream media is capturing obscure and ignore the root causes, focusing instead on the “problem” of poor people, of “concentrated poverty,” and how to “help” “them” climb the ladder of social mobility. Even though the naming of the issue as inequality seems to imply a problem of distribution, the popular discourse constantly reverts to a focus on mobility. The issue becomes the poor themselves and how to get them to be middle class, rather than the need for a redistribution of resources or shifting of economic and political power.