Why support new Americans?
-Census data, both for Bowling Green and Wood County, for years 2000 and 2010 show that the influx of diverse populations helped offset population losses.
-In Bowling Green, the significant 53% increase of people of diverse races and ethnic backgrounds, was what helped the overall population to grow 1.25%. In Wood County, it was the 45% growth of nonwhites that drove the general population to increase 3.65%.
-Changes in the population by age between the last censuses show, both for the city and the county, an aging population. Youth and people of working age decreased in Wood County by 3.82% between the last two censuses, while people 65 and older increased 15.41%. In Bowling Green, the youth and people of working age increased 7.7% while people 65 and older increased 18%.
(US Census Bureau, data for 2000 and 2010)
-In Bowling Green, the significant 53% increase of people of diverse races and ethnic backgrounds, was what helped the overall population to grow 1.25%. In Wood County, it was the 45% growth of nonwhites that drove the general population to increase 3.65%.
-Changes in the population by age between the last censuses show, both for the city and the county, an aging population. Youth and people of working age decreased in Wood County by 3.82% between the last two censuses, while people 65 and older increased 15.41%. In Bowling Green, the youth and people of working age increased 7.7% while people 65 and older increased 18%.
(US Census Bureau, data for 2000 and 2010)
Entrepreneurship
It is hard to overstate the importance of entrepreneurship since new businesses are the main driver of job growth in the United States. New Americans play a particularly important role in this—founding businesses at far higher rates than the U.S. population overall. Today, millions of American workers are employed at an immigrant founded and new American-owned companies.
Taxes & Spending Power
Immigrant households contribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal income, state, and local taxes nationwide and hold a tremendous amount of spending power.
Workforce
The growth in the immigrant population has helped to strengthen America’s labor force.
Healthcare
As millions of baby boomers become elderly,...many healthcare businesses and providers are struggling with finding enough workers... Immigrants have already been filling some of our most glaring healthcare needs. They are twice as likely as the U.S.-born to work as home health aides, but also twice as likely to be physicians and surgeons.
International Students
International students in the United States contribute tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy every year and support a significant number of U.S. jobs through their tuition payments and day-to-day spending.
Housing
Immigrant families have long played an important role helping to build housing wealth in the United States. In recent decades, the more than 40 million new Americans collectively in the country increased U.S. housing wealth by $3.7 trillion.
(https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/locations/ohio/)
It is hard to overstate the importance of entrepreneurship since new businesses are the main driver of job growth in the United States. New Americans play a particularly important role in this—founding businesses at far higher rates than the U.S. population overall. Today, millions of American workers are employed at an immigrant founded and new American-owned companies.
Taxes & Spending Power
Immigrant households contribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal income, state, and local taxes nationwide and hold a tremendous amount of spending power.
Workforce
The growth in the immigrant population has helped to strengthen America’s labor force.
Healthcare
As millions of baby boomers become elderly,...many healthcare businesses and providers are struggling with finding enough workers... Immigrants have already been filling some of our most glaring healthcare needs. They are twice as likely as the U.S.-born to work as home health aides, but also twice as likely to be physicians and surgeons.
International Students
International students in the United States contribute tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy every year and support a significant number of U.S. jobs through their tuition payments and day-to-day spending.
Housing
Immigrant families have long played an important role helping to build housing wealth in the United States. In recent decades, the more than 40 million new Americans collectively in the country increased U.S. housing wealth by $3.7 trillion.
(https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/locations/ohio/)
