{"id":3342,"date":"2012-01-03T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2012-01-03T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T16:29:58","slug":"income-among-asians-growing-the-most-in-ok-blacks-the-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/01\/03\/income-among-asians-growing-the-most-in-ok-blacks-the-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Income Among Asians Growing the Most in OK, Blacks the Least"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a look at Census figures, the <em>Tulsa World<\/em> has filed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120102_11_A1_Theinc511853\">a report<\/a> on the income gap between white and most non-white households, which is growing in Oklahoma and around the country.<\/p><p>The gap is widest between black and white households, the paper\u2019s Curtis Killman writes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The gap in the median income between those two groups in Oklahoma increased from $11,565 in 1999 to $17,488.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em><\/em><!--more-->The gap in Tulsa County is bigger than elsewhere in the state.<\/p><p>The trend could indicate that minorities have been hit harder by the recession, the <em>World<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Being able to find a job, being able to find a job that pays enough is particularly a challenge for African-Americans in this state, and higher incarceration rates make that even more difficult,&#8221; Kate Richey, a policy analyst for the Oklahoma Policy Institute, which advocates for the poor, told the paper.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>According to the <em>World<\/em>\u2019s analysis of state Census data from 1999-2010, this is how the state\u2019s income growth breaks down among households:<\/p><p><strong>Asian:<\/strong> 46 percent<br \/>\n<strong>American Indian:<\/strong> 32 percent<br \/>\n<strong>White:<\/strong> 30 percent<br \/>\n<strong>Hispanic:<\/strong> 23 percent<br \/>\n<strong>Black:<\/strong> 20 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a look at Census figures, the Tulsa World has filed a report on the income gap between white and most non-white households, which is growing in Oklahoma and around the country.The gap is widest between black and white households, the paper\u2019s Curtis Killman writes. The gap in the median income between those two groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[64,252],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}