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Importing Poverty
Immigration's Impact on the Size and
Growth of the Poor Population in the United States
By Steven A. Camarota
Center Paper #15
September 1999
List of Figures, Tables, and Maps
Executive Summary
Introduction
Why Care About Poverty Caused by Immigration?
Methods and Data
Findings
Statistics
Conclusion
Policy Implications
End Notes
References
About the Author
Steven
A. Camarota is Director of Research at the Center for
Immigration Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy
Analysis from the University of Virginia. Dr. Camarota
has testified before Congress and written extensively
on the effects of low-skilled immigration on American
workers. His most recent works from the Center are Immigrants
in the United States
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1998: A Snapshot of America's Foreign-born
Population and The Wages of Immigration: The Effect
on the Low-Skilled Labor Market.
About
the Center
The
Center for Immigration Studies, founded in 1985, is a
non-profit, non-partisan research organization in Washington,
D.C. which examines and critiques the impact of immigration
on the United States. It provides a variety of services
for policymakers, journalists, and academics, including
an e-mail news service, a monthly Backgrounder
series and other publications, congressional testimony,
and public briefings.
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