Mint is back at it again, this time publishing an infographic on the income disparity between the sexes and across the races. The graphic is good, but I am left puzzling over one aspect of it. In 2002 the Census Bureau starting reporting the incomes for Asian males and females. Why did they not collect that data in earlier years? I remember when the Japanese machine was rolling in the 1980s and they were going to buy up the world. It seems to me that they would have been collecting that data for the past several decades, not just the last eight years.
Though the income gap in the United States has slowly decreased over the last few decades, there still remains a significant disparity in income between genders and across races. The earnings of Black women are much closer to the US average than those of their male counterparts, and the trend is similar for those of Hispanic descent.
via The US Income Gap .
I guess it refers to Asian-ethnic people in the US, not people in Asian countries. Data comes from the US census bureau and it’s for US jobs.
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