Immigrant facts for California

Immigrants fuel California’s economy through their labor and entrepreneurship:

Overall, immigrants comprise approximately one-third of the California labor force. Immigrants figure prominently in key economic sectors in California including agriculture, manufacturing and services.

Immigrants prove leadership and labor for the expansion of California’s growing economic sectors – from telecommunications and information technology to health services and housing construction.

Immigrants participate in the labor force at slightly higher rates than the national average. Approximately 90 percent of Latino and Asian immigrant men are employed.

Over the next 30 years, the children and grandchildren of immigrants will play an increasingly critical role in the state’s economy. According to projections by the University of Southern California, there will be a nearly 60 percent increase in the labor force coming from the second generation of immigrant families.

Immigrants are among California’s most productive entrepreneurs, and have created jobs for tens of thousand of Californian. In San Jose alone, immigrant owners of technology companies created more than 58,000 jobs and generated more that $17 billion in sales during the late 1990s. Google, Sun Microsystems, eBay, and Yahoo! Are all companies that were founded or co-founded by immigrants.

Robert Stanford
Candidate for Modesto City Council Seat 1
http://www.myspace.com/stanford4modesto
PO Box 576684
Modesto, CA 95357
(209) 496-2363
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