Importing Innovation

8

Number of the nine people who won 2009 Nobel Prizes for sciences who were Americans

5

Number of those American winners who were immigrants to the United States

25

Percent of American Nobel Prize winners since 1901 who were immigrants to the U.S.

40

Percent of Ph.D. scientists working in the U.S. who are foreign-born

300,000

Number of illegal Indian immigrants who live in the United States

62

Percent higher household income Indian-American households have than the average American household

40

Percent of employers with 500 or more workers who offered medical insurance to Medicare-eligible retirees in 1993

16

Percent who did so in 2011

Sources: Washington Post; RealClearMarkets.com