1.   Black immigrant households bring in more money because they have more people working.

2.   Children learn to treasure elders in a multigenerational, immigrant household and appreciate the culture and language of their ancestry, he said.

3.   Immigrant households average seven years on AFDC.

4.   In immigrant households, mandatory-arrest laws can be further complicated by language barriers and by fear of reprisal from immigration authorities.

5.   In fiscal terms, the panel said, immigrant households are costly at first, mainly because of the public education costs they impose on state and local governments.

6.   That is largely because immigrant households earn slightly less than native-born people and have more children.

7.   The state programs range from an emergency food assistance program in Colorado to a plan in Washington state that fully replaces federal food stamp benefits to all immigrant households.