Dominicans Send Largest Percentage Of Income Home

This Group Sends Largest Percentage Of Income Home
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2010 file photo, a customer stands at the counter at Unitransfer, a money transfer company at the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami, Fla. Haiti's new President Michel Martelly, who lived abroad himself, has vowed to overturn Haiti's long-standing ban on dual citizenship and to build a better relationship with an overseas community that contributes 25 percent of Haiti's gross domestic product with remittances sent to relatives back home. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2010 file photo, a customer stands at the counter at Unitransfer, a money transfer company at the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami, Fla. Haiti's new President Michel Martelly, who lived abroad himself, has vowed to overturn Haiti's long-standing ban on dual citizenship and to build a better relationship with an overseas community that contributes 25 percent of Haiti's gross domestic product with remittances sent to relatives back home. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Among the immigrants who earn the least money in the United States, Dominicans are those who send the largest percentage of their earnings back to their home country, according to Manuel Orozco, a scholar with Inter-American Dialogue.

Among migrants earning $25,000 a year or less, those coming from the Dominican Republic set aside an average of 19 percent of their pay to send home in the form of remittances.

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