The proportion of poor households among first-generation immigrants reached 12 percent in 1980, which was not only far higher than that for native-born Chinese Americans (3.7 percent) but higher than that for the U.S. as a whole (9.6 percent).
一九八○年第一代移民中的貧戶比例高達百分之十二，不但遠高於在美出生的華人（百分之三．七），也高於全美比例（百分之九．六）。