The 90/10 ratio among Asians was notably greater than among blacks (9.8), whites (7.8) and Hispanics (7.8).Ģ Income inequality among Asians in the U.S. In 2016, the latest year for which data are available, Asians near the top of their income distribution (the 90th percentile) had incomes 10.7 times greater than the incomes of Asians near the bottom of their income distribution (the 10th percentile). Here are five key findings from the report:ġ Income inequality in the U.S. (See the report methodology for details.) Thus, people’s incomes are represented by their household’s income adjusted for household size. “Income” refers to the resources available to a person based on the income of their household, whether the person had personal earnings or not. decennial censuses, income inequality is measured using the 90/10 ratio – the income of those at the high end (90th percentile) of the income distribution relative to the income of those at the low end (10th percentile). In this analysis, which draws on data from the American Community Survey and U.S.
However, the rise in inequality within America’s racial and ethnic communities varies strikingly from one group to another, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. By one measure, the gap between Americans at the top and the bottom of the income ladder increased 27% from 1970 to 2016. Income inequality – the gap in incomes between the rich and poor – has increased steadily in the United States since the 1970s.
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