Immigrants play increasing role in US science and engineering workforce
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 06:50
in Earth & Climate
From 2003 to 2013, the number of scientists and engineers residing in the U.S. rose from 21.6 million to 29 million. An important factor in that increase: over the same time period, the number of immigrant scientists and engineers went from 3.4 million to 5.2 million.