Demographic Differences Among Immigrants Income In The United States

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The first chart depicts the difference between Poverty, Probability, and Statistics. It talks about these things and how they change between one generation and the next. The chart states that poverty is everywhere. It states the role poverty is having on people and their incomes. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. It also presents the inequalities of wealth, and how their incomes affect them based upon where they live.

The second chart depicts the differences among immigrants’ income in the U.S. It also bases it off where they came from, For example, The wealthiest race (from country of origin) appears to be China according to this table. A reader will also notice that these charts not only measure wealth, but the years those ethnics have been around as well. Which is why China appears to be ahead of all others.

A growth in the number of immigrants is expected to rise by 20%. If such an event occurs, the idea that immigrants are in a sense, “stealing” American jobs would be evidently true. An arise in 20% would mean that, statistically, we can expect more than 8 million people to migrate to the U.S. within the next decade. Our country’s current economy couldn’t handle such an increase in numbers of people financially. It has already jumped by
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I don't believe that people should be deported for coming into a country and actually helping its society to be productive by maintaining a job. I believe illegal immigrants come to this country to work; Statistically, this is proven to be true because the labor participation rate of foreign-born people in the U.S. is 66 percent. I find this claim that immigrants are stealing jobs to be misleading. People are pointing the finger at the wrong person. Rather, a more important issue should be the number of people who are dependent on welfare and don’t have

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