Opinion | Why So Many Children of Immigrants Rise to the Top - The New York Times - 0 views
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Immigrants and their children are assimilating into the United States as quickly now as in the past
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“first-generation immigrants are more costly to governments than are the native-born,” according to a 2017 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the “second generation are among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S.”
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Second-generation-immigrant success stories have long been a part of America’s history. Looking at census records from 1880, the researchers found that men whose fathers were low-income immigrants made more money as adults than the sons of low-income men born in the United States
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