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Need To Know  Legal immigration and entrepreneurship

Need to Know explores the debate about legal immigration. Details

 

Program: Need To Know

Episode: Legal immigration and entrepreneurship

In this edition of Need to Know, the program explores the debate about legal immigration. Should the government make it easier for foreign-born, hi-tech workers to stay in the U.S.? The U.S. Small Business Administration says people who immigrate to the United States are 30 percent more likely to start a business. And a Jon Meacham essay about the 1965 immigration act.

Duration: (24:30)
Premiere Date: 05/11/2012
Episode Expires: Thu 11 May 2017
TV Rating: NR


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