They work hard, contributing to our society, often doing jobs native-born Americans will not do.
While immigrants are both critically-important consumers and producers, they boost the economic well-being of native-born Americans as well.
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And immigrants continue to be more than twice as likely to start new businesses as were native-born Americans.
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They have a higher labor-participation rate than native-born Americans, and they also create new businesses at a higher rate.
Now the birthrate of native-born Americans is dropping, and if we want to continue to grow the economy .
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Steeped in the culture of enterprise and capitalism, they're more likely than native-born Americans to have a bachelor of arts degree.
Immigrants are twice as likely to start businesses as native-born Americans, and statistics show that most job growth comes from small businesses.
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In contrast to previous waves of immigration, Asian-Americans are more skilled, better educated, and earn higher incomes, often surpassing native born Americans.
Yet among native-born Americans, poverty rates have declined steadily since the 1960s.
For immigrants and native-born Americans alike, civic education should not be about passing a simple test but promoting high and diverse civic achievement.
Among those who competed with Team USA in the London 2012 Olympic Games were more than 35 foreign-born Americans according the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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Legal immigrants to the country are more likely to have failed to finish high school than either native-born Americans or immigrants to other English-speaking countries.
More economic growth means more and better opportunities for native-born Americans.
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Almost all its native-born Americans came from east of the Mississippi.
Whoever thought the day would come that California--highly taxed and antibusiness--would start seeing tens of thousands of native-born Americans moving out of the state instead of moving in.
This has shown up in the decline in the number of individuals trying to reach the U.S. in order to pursue their dreams, along with a rising number of native born Americans on the dole.
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Specifically, those Americans born between 1946 and 1964 are often looking for higher-skill assignments.
Americans born after 1979 fit the bill and I have said that HERE, HERE and HERE.
For Americans born in 1945 (and eligible for Medicare in 2010), the system will still transfer resources from poorer to richer.
At the time of the attacks, few educated Americans born after 1950 had any direct experience of war or persecution or cataclysmic failure.
Many of us U.S.-born Mexican-Americans grew up with an unease about our place in the world, too Mexican to be American and too American to be Mexican.
Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the mid-nineteenth century. (Emphasis added.) Think about that for a moment.
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Dychtwald's message: Baby boomers, the 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964, present a vast market for a potential explosion of products and services, from new dating websites to longevity insurance to new kinds of food.
But the age of segregationist Democrats ended before most Americans were born.
Both Allen and Myers agree that the boom in urban farming for African-Americans is born out of necessity and not just echoing traditions.
In my experience, women are less likely than men to be in total denial about the fact that some Americans are born with more cultural and financial advantage than others and that government should have some programs that seek to lessen the disparity.
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Mr Wright's anger is shared by many black Americans who were born in a country that denied them basic rights.
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Early on, it was mostly young Mexican-Americans, people born in the U.S., who carried the Mexican flag, and it was mostly immigrants, the people from Mexico, who carry the stars and stripes.
The access to JFK's audio and written speeches provided by this book will once again inspire those who heard and read them over forty years ago, but it will also win new converts to the Kennedy mystique among the millions of Americans who were born since 1963.
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