Study: Irvine is nation’s 3rd most-prosperous large city while Hemet ranks 8th most-distressed small town

While thumbing through a new study tying limited regional economic success to diminished well-being across the nation, I stumbled upon this local nugget:
Irvine ranked as the third most-prosperous city among the nation’s 100 largest, according to the Economic Innovation Group’s math. Conversely, Hemet was ranked eighth-worst among small cities.
This think tank’s research combined federal government and U.S. Census Bureau economic and demographic benchmarks, through 2015, to sho