From "NumbersUSA":

Statistics

Jobless Rate - October 2009

Jobless Numbers - Friday, November 6, 2009

Overall Unemployment Rate
10.2%

Unemployment Rate among Black Americans
15.7%

Unemployment Rate among Hispanics
13.1%

Unemployment Rate among Teenagers
27.6%

U-6 Unemployment Rate
(includes unemployed Americans, those who have settled for part-time work, and those who have given up their job search altogether)
17.5%

Total Jobs lost in October, 2009
190,000

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm


Remittances
Stats - Thursday, March 19, 2009

$26 billion to Mexico in 2007. (Joel Millman, Remittances to Mexico Fell More Than Forecast, Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009, p. A3).

55% of Mexican immigrants to the United States are illegal. (Steven A. Camarota, Immigrants in the United States, 2007: A Profile of America’s Foreign Born Population, Center for Immigration Studies, November, 2007. Available at: http://www.cis.org/immigrants_profile_2007).

55% of $26 billion is $14.3 billion.


$26 billion to Mexico in 2007. (Joel Millman, Remittances to Mexico Fell More Than Forecast, Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009, p. A3).

55% of Mexican immigrants to the United States are illegal. (Steven A. Camarota, Immigrants in the United States, 2007: A Profile of America’s Foreign Born Population, Center for Immigration Studies, November, 2007. Available at: http://www.cis.org/immigrants_profile_2007).

55% of $26 billion is $14.3 billion.

57% of the illegal population comes from Mexico. (Steven A. Camarota, Immigrants in the United States, 2007: A Profile of America’s Foreign Born Population, Center for Immigration Studies, November, 2007. Available at: http://www.cis.org/immigrants_profile_2007).

If we assume that all illegal immigrants send money home at the same rate as Mexican illegal immigrants, then the question we must ask is, if 57% of the illegal population sends home $14.3 billion, what is the total amount of money that the illegal population sends home?

.57(x) = 14.3 x = 14.3/.57 = $25.08 billion

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