Half NYC’s Small Biz Owned By Immigrants

The Wall Street Journal:

According to the study published Monday by the Fiscal Policy Institute, immigrants constitute just over one-third of New York City residents. But they are 48 percent of the city’s small-business owners.

Immigrants dominate businesses like grocery stores, taxi services and dry cleaning but they are in every sector of the economy.

The foreign-born entrepreneurs come from all over the world. The country whose natives make up the largest share of immigrant business owners is China, with about 9 percent of the total. China is followed by the Dominican Republic, Korea, India, Italy, Greece, Colombia, the former Soviet Union, Israel and the Palestinian territories and Jamaica.

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