Study: Half of immigrant population in Arkansas undocumented, fuel economy
Tagged: Arkansas, Mexico, populationPosted on: April 5th, 2007“About half of Arkansas growing immigrant population is illegally in the country and part of an economic engine that the state’s manufacturers couldn’t do without, a study by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation shows.
Weighted heavily with recent arrivals from Mexico who live in western Arkansas, the states immigrant population works primarily in the poultry and meat processing industry, the report released this week shows. Without this labor force, the study says, state manufacturers and other companies would lose about $1.4 billion in production a year and pay $95 million more for higher wages.”
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