Apple's Siri has been trained in more than 20 languages, including Italian, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, and various flavors of Spanish, which should in theory make it easier for Apple to scale HomePod across many markets, though it will be limited to just a handful of English -
language markets initially.
And while refugees ultimately — after a period of six to ten years — have higher labor force participation and employment rates, and have similar welfare participation rates, relative to U.S. - born residents, they often enter the U.S. with low human capital and
language skills and have
initially poor labor
market outcomes and high rates of welfare usage.