Asians earn more than any other ethnicity in the United States?

That's according to a study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on September 14, 2011.

It's data that many Asians will consider studying further, because the data doesn't factor in the fact that Asians only comprise 5% of the U.S. population. The comprehensive study can be dissected at the BLS site, http://bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20110914.ht

Also, the Asian category needs to be broken down into into different nationalities to understand the data further. For example, the Asian American Federation claimed in a study that poverty is significantly more pervasive among Asian Americans in New York City than generally believed.

Report states in “Working but Poor: Asian American Poverty in New York City” that almost one-fifth of all Asian residents are poor. Even greater levels of poverty exist for the elderly Asians and for some Asian ethnic groups -- Cambodian, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese and Pakistani Americans. Almost half of Asian Americans have low incomes".

This is why it's crucial to break down different Asian groups than lumping them in one category called Asian. Admerasia has been in the business of segmenting different Asians for more than a decade, knowing each segment is unique and needs to be approached in a different way, especially in terms of language and culture--and even in some cases like the AAF study, economic need. Today, Admerasia is not just targeting Asian Americans but also the other multicultural markets, including African Americans, Eastern Europeans and Middle Easterners.

For this season, studies, or your own research, need not stop in one place--and this is why "perspective reading" is important for everyone to develop, to find that certain truths may not be what they seem until the curious mind digs deeper. For more information on low-income Asian Americans, visit the AAF website at www.aafederation.org.