Employment: Foreign Born vs. Native Born
In the year following the official end of the recent recession, the unemployment rate for immigrant workers fell 0.6 percentage points, while for native-born workers it rose 0.5 percentage points.
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In the year following the official end of the recent recession, the unemployment rate for immigrant workers fell 0.6 percentage points, while for native-born workers it rose 0.5 percentage points.
Six-in-ten Latinos say discrimination against Hispanics is a “major problem.”
The number of unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S. fell by 8% between March 2007 and March 2009.
An annual average of 300,000 unauthorized immigrants entered the U.S. between 2007 and 2009, down sharply from 2000 to 2005 when about 850,000 entered the U.S. each year.
More than a third of Americans cite religion as the top influence on their view of gay marriage.
Unauthorized immigrants comprise about 4% of the U.S. adult population, but their children comprise 8% of newborns.
Births have overtaken immigration as the main driver of the dynamic growth in the Mexican-American population.
The percentage of Mexicans holding favorable views of the U.S. fell from 62% to 44% after Arizona’s immigration law passed.
Nearly a quarter of Americans say Hispanics face a lot of discrimination in society today, making them the racial/ethnic group the public sees as most often subjected to discrimination.
The size of the Millennial generation is about equal to the size of the Boomer generation — but for a different reason.
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