New York City Ownership: Immigrants Dominate Small Business Picture in the Big Apple

You definitely can not be anti-immigrants in New York City.
The Big Apple would die without them.

Alicia Ciccone has the story at The Huffington Post in Immigrants Dominate Small-Business Ownership In NYC.

This is a case where ownership is obviously related to the service industry and where small business "owners" are people doing things that provide "a living" but that do not necessarily translate into big bucks. As Ciccone writes:

"The study [being reported on] reflects the reality that many immigrants operate in industries with low wages and poor working conditions, such as dry cleaning and laundry and taxi and limousine services, which both cited 90 percent immigrant ownership."

My own first thought was the restaurant business. Where would the cuisine of the world's cities -- not just New York City -- be without the spice of life that restaurant variety adds to the landscape, much of it by immigrants.