The Growing Gap: Visualising Racial Income and Wealth Inequality in the U.S.

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10 Comments

  1. KnotSupposed2BeHere on

    So please tell me when America was great again? Asking for a (Black American) friend…

  2. Meanteenbirder on

    Kinda interesting that it seems that the least impacted states are either the most white or the most Hispanic-rich ones.

  3. figgypudding531 on

    For those wondering why Wisconsin is the highest, it’s partly because a large percentage of Black Wisconsinites live in Milwaukee, which is one of the most segregated cities in the country due to historical laws and discrimination in the housing market.

  4. Gardener_Of_Eden on

    Why is it always black and white? Why not just show that Asians earn the most everywhere? 

    It is almost like race is not a meaningful metric to group people. 

  5. Now do the inequality of high-quality work performed and taxes paid by race.

    Also, any measurement of household income is inherently misleading because blacks largely decline to live in two-parent, two-earner households.

  6. The problem with using HHI as a measure is that you are *mostly* measuring marriage rates.

    Household income is all of the income a household takes in, but some households consist of one person, and some of a couple. Black marriage rate is 30% ; White is 54%; Asian 61%; Hispanic 46%.

    The “partnered” (cohabiting or married) rate has similar effects (B 41;W 67; A 71; H 62). But that data is only for 25-54, so not an exact match to married data.

    (although I’m