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Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success” by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan.

Why you should read it: This authoritative 2022 book can help reshape our thinking about the topic of immigration and its role in the modern American workforce. The authors explain, through important new findings and research, how children of immigrants do better economically than children of American-born parents, are more upwardly mobile, and assimilate fastest. Closing the door to immigrants harms the future economic prospects of American businesses, the book argues. “Streets of Gold” digs into how some policies are misguided, with disastrous results.