Have Degree, Will Travel

By Lisa Girion

July 1, 2001 12 AM PT

Immigrants who have arrived since 1996 are more than twice as likely as U.S.-born workers aged 25 to 34 to have a master’s degree or higher, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

At the same time, these recent immigrants are more than three times as likely than native-born workers to have less than a high school diploma.

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Lisa Girion

As an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Girion produced many high-impact stories, including an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Myanmar, which was anthologized in “Global Muckraking” (The New Press, 2014). Her investigation into the health insurance practice of dropping sick patients, known as rescission, was cited in the Affordable Care Act. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She left The Times in 2015.

Have Degree, Will Travel

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