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Silicon Valley Start-ups, Patient Applications, and Immigrants

Often anti-immigration groups lecture about immigrants taking jobs away from American employees. Given a recent BusinessWeek.com article, the more appropriate question seems to be: how many American jobs do immigrants create?

The article pointed to two telling stats. First, the article found that when the number of H-1B visas increased, the number of patent …

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Monetary Benefits of Immigration

According to a 2007 report of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers entitled Immigration’s Economic Impact, it is estimated that each immigrant to the United States has a net financial benefit of $80,000. That means that each immigrant, in the long run, will contribute $80,000 more in taxes than that immigrant (and his or her …

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