Immigrants in Connecticut generated $1.2 billion in business revenue in 2014, according to fresh data from the Washington, D.C.-based American Immigration Council.
Immigrants represent 17.6 percent of the state’s labor force and support Connecticut’s economy across sectors, comprising more than 25 percent of all computer and math sciences employees, the report states. A third of residents work in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance, the council reports.
Connecticut immigrants also contributed $3.3 billion in federal taxes, $1.8 billion in state and local taxes, and spent $13.8 billion to bolster the state’s economy, according to a fact sheet on the state, which can be found here.
The council obtained its statistics using U.S. Census data and other sources for all 50 states.
