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Proactive Exchange: Integrating Immigrants into the Financial System

Ali Goheer - 15 December, 2007

It is undeniable that immigrants are a tremendous economic force, both here, in the United States, and abroad. Their enthusiastic participation in international workforces, combined with a propensity to fulfill economic niches, creates for them a role as potential market catalysts. In the United States, and in other international settings, immigrants are predominantly an “untapped” market resource in and of themselves. Investigation into the nature of immigrant culture has sparked an interesting plan of action to integrate them further into our national business model.

KX Industries (Orange, Connecticut), the developers of an ultra
low price but high value water filter system says it has begun the search for partners to get the product to end users who desperately need it. The KX microbiological system filters water free of viruses, pesticides, and bacteria, and at average drinking water consumption levels, it will cost a family about 10$ per year.