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This map is evident that most of the white-populated areas have either 0 percent or very low unemployment, meanwhile, locations populated by non-whites, particularly Blacks, have the highest unemployment rate.

The Asian American community in New York City is one of the fastest-growing ethnic groupings, accounting for more than 15% of the overall population of New York City. Overall, the Asian population in NYC represents a wide range of ethnic groupings, immigration backgrounds, and socioeconomic statuses. Even though the Asian American community has spent decades establishing itself, there has been a constantly recurring narrative dubbed the "model minority." While this classification emphasizes a limited area of success, it ignores the terrible economic realities that many Asian Americans continue to face.

According to the Asian American Federation, the number of Asians living in poverty in New York City increased from 170,000 in 2000 to over 245,000 in 2016, with multiple studies revealing that the poverty rates of Asians in NYC are higher than those of any other immigrant group since 25% of all Asian immigrants to the United States only arrived in the nation within the previous decade. Linguistically, 70% of Asian immigrants and 59% of non-Asian immigrants in poverty spoke little to no English (LEP). In addition to this, Asian child poverty rates have also climbed by 1.4 percentage points since 2000. In comparison, just 19% of non-Asian and 27% of Hispanic poor children lived in linguistically isolated homes, whereas 43% of Asian children did. 96% of poor Asian children had at least one immigrant parent, compared to 51% of non-Asian children who were poor and had at least one immigrant parent. Learning English gave Asian workers an advantage in the labor market, with 63% of Asian employees earning less than the poverty line having poor English proficiency, compared to 40% of Asian workers earning at or above the poverty line.

Additionally, studies have also shown that Asian low-income workers are disproportionately represented in two industries that have received increased regulatory scrutiny at the state and municipal levels: the nail salon and food delivery industries, with the restaurant and food service industries employing 21% of low-income Asian workers and merely 10% of non-Asian low-income workers.

While the majority of the top jobs and industries that employed people in poverty were comparable for Asians and non-Asians, a few of these vocations and industries were exclusive to Asians living in poverty. Five of the most popular occupations for impoverished Asian employees were exclusive to Asians alone: chefs and head cooks; miscellaneous personal aesthetic workers; food preparation workers; sewing machine operators; and truck drivers. Two of these groups included occupations that were recently in the news. The category of "miscellaneous personal esthetic workers'' includes a significant number of Asian nail salon employees. The group "drivers/sales employees and truck drivers'' covers the vast majority of Asians employed in food delivery.

Cut-and-sew clothing manufacturing; nail salons and other personal care services; beauty salons; stocks, commodities, money, and other financial activities accounted for four of the top fifteen businesses that employed Asians living in poverty. Restaurants and food services were a major source of employment for low-income Asian workers, employing 21% of them, whilst only 10% of non-Asian employees in poverty worked in the restaurant and food service industry.

As diverse as New York City is, these phenomena remain to be highly prevalent amongst Asians in New York City, with Asian immigrants frequently securing employment opportunities whose wages are frequently insufficient for them to survive in urban cities such as New York City, as highly evident by the unaffordability of nine out of ten low-income Asian families in NYC to rent ‘affordable housing’—which is mostly due to the rising rents associated with gentrification.