Nate Sherry addresses income disparity in Marin County.
When Marin County is mentioned in conversation, what typically comes to mind are the mansions, the coastlines and the state’s top-performing schools. What they do not notice are the households scraping by, the under-resourced schools in certain school districts or the communities living in the shadows of such excesses. As a resident student in Marin, however, it has dawned on me that this county’s wealth gap is not just a statistic — it’s a day-by-day reality affecting lives in different ways.
The contrast is most striking if you compare a place like Tiburon with Marin City. They are worlds apart in terms of opportunity, a short drive from one another. Marin City, a former hub for Black workers in warships in World War II, continues to suffer the long-term consequences of redlining, disinvestment and segregation by race…