Increasing Opportunities for Immigrant Students: Community College Strategies for Success (click to view)

A thorough and yet easy-to-understand breakdown of metro New York's immigrant population by country of origin including their economic impact. It begains with a nationwide survey of immigrant popoulations and ecnomic impact by city.

The city-wide data sows, in order of population impact: Dominican Republic, Mexico, India, China, Jamaica, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana and British Guiana, Philippines, Haiti, El Salvador, Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Peru, Italy, Russia and other USSR, Ukraine, Pakistan, Cuba, Bangladesh and Hong Kong.

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FPI--Immigrants_In_NYC_Economic_Profile_By_Country_Of_Origin_2010.pdf

This report shows the big overall immigrant contribution to Long Island's economy not only stressing the diversity of immigrant jobs but also looking at whether immigrants are displacing U.S.-born workers or lowering wages.

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FPI--The_Changing_Profile_of_Long_Island_Economy.pdf

Immigrant Founders and Key Personnel in America's 50 Top Venture-funded Companies (click to view)

Immigrants are increasingly important in driving growth and innovation in America, as evidenced by the role played by foreign-born founders and key personnel in the nation's breakthrough companies. 

Knowledge and application of science, engineering and technology play an increasingly crucial role in the growth and stability of the U.S. economy. Over the past 10 years, growth in science and engineering (S&E) jobs was three times greater than that of other types of jobs and is expected to continue to grow at a faster rate than other jobs. 

This brief discusses patterns of science and engineering educational attainment within the foreign-born population using data from the 2010 American Community Survey.

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US_Census---The_Foreign-born_with_STEM_degrees_2010.pdf