Foreigners Account for 1 in 6 U.S. Workers

According to U.S. Bureau of the Census  released earlier this week, “[n]early one in six American workers is foreign-born, the highest proportion since the 1920s . . . .” See the New York Times story.  In 2007, immigrants accounted for more than one in four workers in California (35 percent), New York (27 percent), New Jersey (26 percent) and Nevada (25 percent).

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