Example sentences for: foreign-born

How can you use “foreign-born” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We hypothesized that hospital uncompensated care expenditures would be greater in states with higher percentages of foreign-born residents, lower rates of insurance coverage, and higher percentages of teaching hospitals.

  • In addition, percentage foreign-born and percentage teaching hospitals were highly correlated ( r = 0.30).

  • In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew neighborhoods: Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights.

  • State-level data on the percentage of the population uninsured and the percentage of the population comprised of foreign-born noncitizens were obtained from the 2000 Current Population Survey, March Supplement, a detailed description of which is available elsewhere [ 21 ] . Because the Medicare program covers virtually all Americans aged 65 and older, data on insurance coverage rates among nonelderly populations were used.

  • Three of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates in 1994 were also among the states with the highest percentage of foreign-born residents - Texas (19%), California (18%), and New York (17%).


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