Immigrants in the United States, 2010 A Profile of America’s Foreign-Born Population
Note: The term “foreign born” refers to people residing in the United States at the time of the population survey who were not U.S. citizens at birth.
U.S. Birth Rate Falls to a Record Low; Decline Is Greatest Among Immigrants. By Gretchen Livingston and D’Vera Cohn. The U.S. birth rate dipped in 2011 to the lowest ever recorded, led by a plunge in births to immigrant women since the …
The percentage of foreign-born workers in the U.S labor force has grown since 1996. The share of the labor force that is foreign born grew steadily from 1996 to 2007, increasing from 10.8 percent to 15.7 percent over that period.
Why does the crime rate soar among second-generation immigrants compared with their foreign-born peers? Until recently, most sociologists have explained this increase by noting that many second-generation immigrants feel caught between two conflicting worlds—the old world of their parents and the new world of their birth.
Background In the United States, the birth weights of infants of black women are lower than those of infants of white women. The extent to which the lower birth weights among blacks are related to social or genetic factors is unclear. Methods We used vital records for 1980 through 1995 from Illinois to determine the distribution of birth weights among infants born to three groups of women
There were a record 43.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2015, making up 13.4% of the nation’s population. This represents a fourfold increase since
Poverty, Welfare, and the Uninsured Poverty Among Immigrants and Natives. The first column in Table 10 reports the poverty rate for immigrants by country and the second column shows the figures when their U.S.-born ren 18 are included. 22 Based on the March 2011 CPS, 19.9 percent of immigrants compared to 13.5 percent …
Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers Technical Note ; Table 1. Employment status of the foreign-born and native-born populations by selected characteristics, 2016-2017 annual averages
English Proficiency on the Rise Among Latinos. U.S. Born Driving Language Changes. By Jens Manuel Krogstad, Renee Stepler and Mark Hugo Lopez. A record 33.2 million Hispanics in the U.S. speak English proficiently, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. 1 In 2013, this group made up 68% of all …