Study: County’s immigrant Latinos have highest self-employment rate

This should not come as a surprise, immigrants are usually the most entrepreneurial people. They are willing to take chances and start a business, exactly what their home country needed too, but their chances of success are often too small there. - - Donna Poisl

By Leslie Berestein, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Combined regional census and federal economic data show that in San Diego County, Latino immigrants have a higher rate of self-employment than that of non-immigrant Latinos and even native-born U.S. citizens, according to a new report.

The report was released by the California Immigrant Policy Center, a statewide partnership of immigrant-rights groups that includes the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. It was compiled from U.S. Census data pooled from the American Community Survey from 2005 to 2007.
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