UNO study: Immigrant workers boost local economy

This study matches what all other studies in the country find; immigrants help the economy. Click on the headline and download the full study next.   - - Donna Poisl

By Christopher Burbach, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

The labor and spending of immigrant workers in three economic sectors supports 34,000 jobs in metropolitan Omaha and Council Bluffs, including many filled by U.S.-born workers, according to a new University of Nebraska at Omaha study.

Those jobs, the study found, include not only the roughly 13,000 jobs filled by immigrant workers in the meat processing, construction and food service sectors of the local economy. They also include employment in enterprises that the immigrant workers support with their labor and spending, the report asserts.

Each year, immigrant workers contribute $1.4 billion to the Omaha-Council Bluffs economy through their spending and the economic activity it generates.
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