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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Immigrant labor plays vital role

Our U.S. Secretary of Labor has written an opinion piece explaining how important immigrants are here. - - Donna Poisl

By Hilda L. Solis

Google, Goya, Yahoo, Intel and Levi Strauss. It’s hard to imagine a day without these iconic and uniquely American brands.

Most people don’t know that all were founded or co-founded by immigrants.

Goya foods was started by Don Prudencio and Carolina Unanue — a young immigrant couple who in 1936 sold olives and olive oil from a tiny Manhattan storefront.

Almost 60 years later, the website Yahoo was co-created by Jerry Yang, who immigrated to California from Taipei as a child. Immigrants founded 18 percent of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies — which post combined revenues of $1.7 trillion and employ more than 3.6 million people.
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