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November 4, 2007
Where Would Arkansas Be Without Immigrants?
. . . Between 2000 and 2005 Arkansas had the country's fastest-growing Hispanic population, native and foreign-born. The Census Bureau projects an Arkansas population of nearly 3m in 2010, of which 6% will live in immigrant households. Realising a need, Mexico opened a diplomatic office in downtown Little Rock in the spring.
Of Arkansas's immigrants, 60% (the national average is 54%) are aged between 20 and 45. Their youth suggests that, even more than elsewhere, they may replace retiring baby-boomers in the workforce. Lack of higher education keeps them out of the better-paying jobs, but a report by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation estimates that without immigrant labour, annual revenue from Arkansas's manufacturing industry would probably be $1.4 billion lower. . . .
Arkansas's gross state product, for comparison, was an estimated $87 billion in 2005.
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