Immigrants were responsible for the growth of small businesses from 1990 to 2000. During this decade, the number of small businesses owned by U.S.-born decreased by 7 percent while those owned by foreign-born residents increased by 53 percent. more>

Come the Chinese New Year, Chinese immigrants, with or without legal status, wire money back home; however, due to a limit to how much money one can wire abroad and to identification requirements, many Chinese neighborhoods find themselves without enough legal Chinese immigrants who can help wire money for undocumented nationals. more>

Ferdinand Zizi’s surprising departure narrows the field of the race for one Haitian candidate, Mathieu Eugene, who is now going to face a full stable of candidates vying to win the special Feb. 20 election to fill a City Council seat made vacant by the newly elected U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke. more>

The leaders of pro-immigrant organizations say that children of immigrant parents, who make up about 10 percent of all students in the New York State, work twice as hard as American children, yet as many as 50 percent of these children never graduate from high schools. more>

Well-educated, financially independent, ambitious and bilingual, these representatives of the new generation of post-Soviet Jewish immigrants are finally asserting themselves and asking each other questions about who they are, the nature of their culture and its future, what their Jewish faith means to them, and how they fit into the American Jewish landscape. more>