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The Minnesota Chamber announced today a suite of business products and services available to Chamber members. As business and the economy begin to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, high-quality, affordable business products and services can help them save time and money, and accelerate growth.

Immigrants are more geographically concentrated than native-born citizens, no matter what geographical unit is used. To facilitate further analysis of immigrants in Minnesota, this report divides the state into six regions: Central, Twin Cities metro, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest.

Minnesota has a diverse economy with specialization in numerous industries. Using location quotients, which identify specialization in an area, a few types of industries stand out as integral to the Minnesota economy.

Foreign-born workers are unemployed at lower rates the longer they are in the country and more foreign-born workers end up working for themselves over time

There are a number of ways to analyze the economic and multidimensional contributions of immigrants to the development of Minnesota’s economy. In this analysis, immigrants’ impacts are measured by their role in the economy as consumers, sources of human capital, taxpayers, entrepreneurs and by facilitating connections to global markets.