Report on Immigrant Entrepreneurs

A new report by the Center for an Urban Future shows that immigrant entrepreneurs have become increasingly powerful economic engines for cities. The report, titled “A World of Opportunity: Understanding & Tapping the Economic Potential of Immigrant Entrepreneurs,” documents that immigrant entrepreneurs are starting a significant share of new businesses created in cities, stimulating growth in sectors from food manufacturing to health care, creating loads of new jobs and transforming once-sleepy neighborhoods into thriving commercial centers. The report focuses on the impact immigrant entrepreneurs are having—as well as the problems they encounter—in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Boston. Click here to see the report. An article in the New York Times (here) featured the report.

KJ