Data from Upwardly Global’s newest report with the American Immigration Council, “Building Community and Fueling Growth: The Role of Immigrants in Reviving the Great Lakes Region,” was featured in WisBusiness, a business news source based out of the Great Lakes state of Wisconsin.
“The report argues immigrants are ‘fueling economic growth’ and supporting communities across Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and upstate New York. It includes a number of data points to illustrate the economic impact and contributions of immigrants across this region.
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As of 2022, 4.9% of Wisconsin’s population were immigrants, according to figures provided by the report’s authors. While they made up 5.9% of the state’s labor force, they represented 9.5% of STEM workers and 11.1% of agricultural workers in Wisconsin.
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The report also highlights immigrants’ outsized impact on some of Wisconsin’s key industries such as food production and health care. Across the study region, immigrants held 42.5% of meat processing jobs and 30.8% of hand-packing jobs, authors found. And immigrants made up 27.8% of the region’s doctors, 20.6% of its surgeons and 17% of its dentists and personal care aides — all well above their share of the population. “