How open is Minnesota?
The Minnesota Post has a story about the openness of Minnesota to the foreign-born. See the story here. One of the interesting stories for the next 10 years will be how Minnesota repopulates its workforce. Many economists and demographers are saying that the state has no choice but to be more accepting of workers born elsewhere.
The key to success, according to these economists, is whether the state can find ways to be accepting, or whether the state resists the new workers and throws things in the way of future economic success.
The MinnPost website also has a commentary by Lorena Duarte about the need to hold journalists more accountable for their portrayals of immigrants. See that commentary here.
