The Rescue of Maine
Newsweek recently published an article about Lewiston, Maine, a town that once had high job losses and heavy out-migration. But now, things have turned around thanks to an unlikely source – an influx of Somali immigrants. “Increasingly, there’s an acceptance that immigration is associated with good economic growth,” says urban-studies specialist Richard Florida, director of the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute – as the article notes. The Somali migrants have certainly had this effect on the town transforming businesses, universities, and in general energizing once-crime-ridden communities with an “infusion of culture and youth.”
Certainly an article worth reading: