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
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 But that's an outdated notion.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.
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