Immigrants gain jobs, lose earnings....

by Rakesh Kochhar, Associate Director for Research, Pew Hispanic Center, with C. Soledad Espinoza, Intern, Pew Hispanic Center, and Rebeca Hinze-Pifer, Intern, Pew Hispanic Center

In the year following the official end of the Great Recession in June 2009, foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost 1.2 million, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Also, even as immigrants managed to gain jobs in the recovery, they experienced a sharp decline in earnings.  From 2009 to 2010, the median weekly earnings of foreign-born workers decreased 4.5%, compared with a loss of less than one percent for native-born workers. Latino immigrants experienced the largest drop in wages of all.

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