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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10. FWDbranding_datasheet_colorado_modificationsColorado twitter.com/FWD_us facebook.com/fwdus FWD.us is an organization started by key leaders in the tech community to promote policies to keep the United States and its citizens competitive in a global economy— including commonsense immigration reform. What we’re fighting for • Securing our borders • Modernizing our visa system • Providing a pathway to citizenship for the 11 undocumented people driving our economy • Reducing the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars • Ensuring that America leads the world in the 21st century Did you know? • Approximately 1 in 10 Coloradans are immigrants cumulative increase in GSP over 10 years How would Colorado benefit from commonsense immigration reform? Effects of creating a pathway to legalization: $15.8 billion cumulative increase in the earnings of all state residents over 10 years $9.1 billion in additional state and local taxes paid by legalized immigrants $681 million Immigrant entrepreneurs and small business owners create jobs, pay taxes, and are an integral part of Colorado’s labor force. • Share of business owners in Colorado who are immigrants: 9.7%, or 27,645 total immigrant business owners • Annual business income generated by immigrant- owned businesses: $1.2 billion • 83,794 people in Colorado are employed at companies owned by immigrants • 33% of Fortune 500 companies in Colorado were founded by immigrants or their children • Coors Brewery, Qwest Communications, CH2M Hill, and Ball Corp. are some of the largest companies owned by immigrants or their children and together employ 82,700 people and bring in $24 billion in revenue each year 4,708 new jobs would be created in Colorado by 2020 by expanding the high-skilled visa program Colorado twitter.com/FWD_us facebook.com/fwdus Sources: American Immigration Council, Center for American Progress, Map the Impact of Immigration, Parntership for a New American Economy, Pew Hispanic Center, REMI Immigration Reform Report, US Department of Agriculture. Immigrants are vital to Colorado’s industries • Colorado is an emerging tech hub, with giants like Google, Microsoft and IBM beginning to expand and open offices there, especially in Boulder • STEM jobs: Colorado will need to fill 172,560 new STEM jobs by 2020, and its immigrant population will play a large role in this growth. ° 24% of STEM graduates in Colorado’s state universities are foreign born. ° In 2014, Colorado was home to more than 19,000 foreign-born STEM workers. ° 41.6% of students currently earning Engineering Ph.D. degrees from Colorado’s research universities are temporary residents. ° Because STEM fields add jobs at 73% faster rates than the rest of the economy, these students will play a large role in Colorado’s economic future heading forward. • Agriculture: 29% of the agricultural industry’s workforce consists of undocumented workers. ° Of crops workers surveyed between 2007- 2009, 71% were foreign born, 48% of which indicated they were not legally authorized to work in the United States. Undocumented Coloradoans contribute to our workforce and school systems. • There are an estimated 189,130 undocumented people in the state of Colorado • 86.6% are employed • Colorado has 18,830 DACA recipients • 78% are currently working. • Removing them would be an estimated $839,269,600 annual GDP loss • Schools: Colorado State University has 125 undocumented students, with University Northern Colorado at 60 and the Colorado University system hosting the most international students. • Manufacturing: The almost 491,000 immigrants living in Colorado in 2010 were responsible for creating or preserving almost 23,000 manufacturing jobs. • Healthcare: Colorado in the top 15 nationwide for foreign- born nurses and nursing aides. ° Immigrant healthcare practitioners also made up 16% of those working as nursing, psychiatric, or home health aides.