It’s an economic issue, and a pair of recent studies make clear just how important immigrants’ role is in creating new businesses in this country. The Partnership for a New American Economy calculates that immigrant business owners employ one in 10 U.S. private-sector workers, and notes that they started more businesses in recent years, in contrast to a decline in startups by native-born Americans. And a new Kauffman Foundation study focuses on student entrepreneurs, arguing that we should let talented foreign scholars start businesses while enrolled in U.S. universities.
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