Immigration | Immigration Benefits the Economy

Immigration is good for the economy, argues Joel Kotkin in the following viewpoint. The higher-than-average birth rates among immigrants, as well as an entrepreneurial spirit among the most recent newcomers, is helping to counteract America’s current economic recession, Kotkin claims. Immigrants provide a growing consumer market for the technical, energy, and financial services industries, and foreign-born entrepreneurs are starting up small manufacturing, retail, and service businesses, he contends. Kotkin is a senior fellow at the Davenport Institute for Public Policy at Pepperdine...

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