Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for May 23, 2017
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May 23, 2017: In 2016, there were 27 million foreign-born people in the U.S. labor force.[1]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that this represented 17 percent of all workers. That’s an increase from 2000, when 13 percent of the workforce was foreign-born. Of these, 48 percent were Hispanic and 25 percent were Asian.
| The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 17 percent of all workers are foreign-born. |
Foreign-born workers make up 24 percent of the workforce in the West, 20 percent in the Northeast, 16 percent in the South, and 9 percent in the Midwest.
The median usual weekly earnings of foreign-born, full-time wage and salary workers was $715. That’s lower than the comparable figure of $860 for native-born workers. Part of that gap results from the fact that a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers lack a high school degree. Foreign-born workers with a college degree earn a bit more on average than native-born college graduates.
For additional information, read the Bureau of Labor Statistics release.
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