Movers And Shakers
21 December 2000 - 8:00am
Joel Kotkin looks at "how immigrants are reviving neighborhoods given up for dead."
An excerpt from Joel Kotkin's book, 'The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape' looks at the influence of immigrant on the nation's cities."In the coming decades, this disconnect between the labor force and the economy in some areas could lead to an exodus of middle-class people and businesses to less troubled places, as happened previously in inner cities."
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Reason Online, December 1, 2000
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