Foreign-born worker numbers hold steady

WASHINGTON — The share of the U.S. labor force composed of the foreign born was little changed in 2009, and their unemployment rate rose from 5.8 to 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The jobless rate of the native born increased from 5.8 percent in 2008 to 9.2 percent in 2009. Some [...] [...]