do you earn enough to compensate for your shortcomings?

[monster]

Hmm.

an African-American man needs to earn $154,000 more than a white man.

From the census:

Real median income did not change between 2002 and 2003 for non-Hispanic white households (about $48,000), black households (about $30,000) or Asian households (about $55,500).

Damn! incomes must have gone up a lot in the last 5 years! Unless they didn't use a representative sample of the population? But they must have done. The article seems to imply that the results are general