New Jersey Attracts Diverse Group of Immigrants

March 10, 2001

Source: The New York Times

On March 10, 2001, The New York Times reported that "among the most vivid threads in the New Jersey census figures...are stark figures on the diversification of the suburbs around the state....The blizzard of numbers from the census tell of a new kind of immigrant, the educated, high-achieving striver" who chooses central New Jersey to be in "commuting distance of its electronics, pharmaceutical and medical care industries."