Nearly one in four Asian adults in NYC lived in poverty in 2020: Report
“About one in four Asian adults in New York City lived in poverty in 2020 — a rate that is significantly higher than the citywide average, according to a report released today by Robin Hood, a local non-profit, in collaboration with Columbia University.
It’s the first time that the foundation has expanded its data collection on income and material hardship to include a sufficiently large sample of Asian New Yorkers, allowing researchers to analyze the economic well-being of what it calls the most understudied racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
The welfare of a subset of Asian New Yorkers – those who are 65 years or older, those with limited English proficiency, and those with a high school degree or less – is even more dismal, according to the report, The State of Poverty and Disadvantage in New York City. The rates of poverty for these Asian New Yorkers were even higher.”