St. Paul, Minnesota, is seeing a resurgence of farmers markets and immigrants are responsible. An influx of Hmong refugees from Southeast Asia in the 1970s gave the markets a second life. The immigrants from Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, along with the Hmong people, are coming from cultures where everyone shops in open-air markets for their goods.
Turkish and British Immigrants to the US Win Nobel Prize
In economics, immigrants have proven to be a driving force for development and innovation in the United States. This year, three immigrant economists, Daron Acemoglu,