OTHER NEWS - April 19, 1994

Study Finds Immigrants Dominate Certain Professions: Immigrants are obtaining higher-paying jobs than native-born Americans in science, medicine and several other professional fields, and Asians are outdistancing all others in some fields, according to a U.S. Census-based study. The analysis, by the Center for Immigration Studies, found that foreign-born Indian doctors outnumber American-born blacks in medical practice in the United States. It also discerned a striking disparity in median salaries among racial groups and found significantly larger proportions of Asians and whites in the professions than either blacks or Latinos. “Asian professionals are outdistancing, numerically, their white counterparts in engineering, math and computer science, natural sciences, college teaching and medicine . . . “ the report said.