Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians Asians displace blacks as the most economically divided group in the U.S. BY RAKESH KOCHHAR AND ANTHONY CILLUFFO

Income inequality, a measure of the economic gap between the rich and poor, has risen steadily in the United States since the 1970s. More recently, the issue burst into public consciousness with the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 and subsequent calls for a $15 minimum wage. An important part of the story of rising income inequality is that experiences within America’s racial and ethnic communities vary strikingly from one group to the other.