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he United States has a higher immigrant population than any other country in the world. And though political debates in recent years have laid emphasis on Hispanic immigration, it is in fact Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) that have become the fastest-growing minority group in the United States. According to New American Economy and the 2017 American Community Survey, the AANHPI population jumped from 7 million in 1990 to 17 million in 2010. And by 2017 that number has grown to over 22 million – an increase
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of over 25 percent. For comparison, between 2010 and 2017 the overall US population only increased by 5.3 percent. Many families in the AANHPI community have lived here for multiple generations, in addition to the significant number of newcomers who have come for work, opportunity, and to be closer to family members already living in the United States. While AANHPI represent the fastest-growing minority group in the US, there is another segment of the population that is growing even faster – the old. According to the Spring 2020 | arizonaphysician.com
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