Asians have highest income in the US, study says
Asians have highest income in the US, study says
- September 22, 2014
- Stanley Bailey, sociology professor, is featured by KPCC September 22, 2014
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From KPCC:
Whites are no longer the most well-off race in America, according to a new study
on income inequality by researchers at Stanford University and the University of California,
Irvine. “Americans have long [considered] whites as the most privileged, highest income
earners and blacks as the least,” said Stanley Bailey, UCI associate professor of
sociology, in a statement. But that's an outdated notion. he study, published in the
online journal Demographic Research, found Asians have the highest per capita household
income in the U.S.
For the full story, please visit http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2014/09/22/17333/asian-have-highest-in....
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