Statistics on Poverty and Immigration

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Immigrant families, and even their descendants, are in general more at risk of being poor.

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The obvious cause is the relatively lower education and skill level of most migrants (see here). Moreover, we see, at least in the U.S., that poverty rates of immigrants fall faster than for natives, and that’s a hopeful sign:

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