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Immigrants add billions to NY economy


Immigrants - both documented and undocumented - contributed $229 billion to the state’s economy a figure that represented nearly one quarter of New York’s economy in 2006, according to a report recently released by the Fiscal Policy Institute.

“These figures should wipe away any impression that immigrants are holding the New York economy back,” said David Dyssegaard Kallick, senior fellow of the Fiscal Policy Institute and principal author of the report, Working for a Better Life: A Profile of Immigrants in the New York Economy. “In fact, immigrants are a central component of New York’s economic growth.”

Immigrants make up 37 percent of the population in New York City and account for 46 percent of its

http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2007/11/29/news/headline_stories/news04.txt


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