March 31, 2009 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Foreign-born workers by region, 2008In 2008, 24.1 million persons, or 15.6 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force age 16 and over, were foreign born. By region, the foreign born made up a larger share of the total labor force in the West (24.1 percent) and in the Northeast (17.9 percent) than for the nation as a whole. In contrast, the shares of the labor force made up by foreign-born workers in the South (13.8 percent) and Midwest (7.8 percent) were less than for the nation. These data are from the Current Population Survey. Find more information in "Foreign-born Workers: Labor Force Characteristics in 2008," (PDF) (HTML) news release USDL 09- 0303.
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