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Labor force characteristics of foreign-born workers.

Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-Born Workers finds that there were 21.4 million foreign-born people in the U.S. labor force in 2004, comprising 14.5 percent of the total workforce. The Bureau of Labor Statistics report says that between 2002 to 2004, the number of foreign-born workers

grew by about 1.2 million and accounted for a little less than half of total labor force growth over that period. The report is located at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/forbrn.toc.htm.

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