Good News: St Louis is a changin'

[limabeans]

<p>Today’s NYTimes had a front page article about St. Louis. Well, actually it was about how immigrants’s influx into a city shows a pattern of overall growth. It gives you all a different insight about St. Louis.

[Immigrants</a> in Work Force - Study Belies Image - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/us/16skilled.html?pagewanted=1&hp]Immigrants”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/us/16skilled.html?pagewanted=1&hp)

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But more recently a new pattern is emerging: even in the recession, some corners of the metropolitan area are sputtering to life, and new immigrants with a mix of skills are playing a conspicuous part.<br>
“If you look at what feeds the core of many American cities, it’s the arrival of the immigrant groups,” said Anna Crosslin, president of the International Institute of St. Louis, a refugee resettlement and immigrant aid agency here.

And then, in summary:

“We have turned the corner slightly,” she said. “And one of the factors is the newcomers who are starting to arrive again.”

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[Soundwave]

<p>yeah, i saw this one. Pretty exciting</p>