Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants: 43% on welfare after 20 years
The study, which covers all immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S.-born children younger than 18, found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures the longer they live in the U.S. but lag well behind native-born Americans on factors such as poverty, health insurance coverage and homeownership.
The study, based on 2010 and 2011 census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/slow-path-to-progress-for-us-immigrants/
so more amnesty from republicans helps our country how again, Goober G?
Rick Snyder likes to promote the fantasy of immigrants starting businesses too. He likes to point to Henry Dow who started Dow Chemicals as an immigrant success story. The problem is that it wasn’t quite as simple as a starry eyed immigrant making millions in his first year.
The real story is that Dow was born to American parents in Canada and moved here six weeks after Henry’s birth. Dow’s father then invented some sort of steam engine that the Navy bought so I doubt they were destitute.
Long story short, Dow was here for nearly 30 years before founding his company in 1895. He and his family paid their own way and Dow didn’t face nearly the taxation and regulation we face today as he started his company.