Articles so far

I have found so many different articles about immigration and immigration reform. Since this is such a big topic of the Presidential Elections, there is a lot of information out there. What jumped out at me about all the articles I have read through are the statistics.

An article in The Atlantic that I found pretty interesting had statistics showing how immigrants are actually creating businesses, such as "from 2006 to 2012, more than two-fifths of the start-up tech companies in Silicon Valley had at least one foreign-born founder". It also talked about how immigrants are helping the U.S. Workforce by creating jobs since "they accounted for 28 percent of all new small businesses in 2011". I also found an interesting article for The Huffington Post that also had statistics relating immigration with the economy. The statistic that really jumped out at me was that "in 2012 immigrants founded 42 percent of America's Fortune 500 companies" and that those companies "created over ten million jobs and generated $4.5 trillion of annual revenue, about 30 percent of the US GDP".

However, statistics that really jumped out at me were in an article for The Washington Post. In this article, there were statistics relating to how young adults view immigration versus older adults. "More than two-thirds (68%) of young adults (age 18 to 29) say that immigrants coming to the U.S. strengthen the country..." opposed to "only 36% of seniors (age 65 and older) believe that newcomers strengthen American society". Wow! You can see that how Americans view immigration is definitely changing with the generations! Which is why it is so important to keep the younger generations informed and educated.

Links directly to the articles, with article summaries, can be found on my "Suggested Readings" page.