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Labor Department Reports 7.6 Million Unfilled Jobs in America

The United States Labor Department has reported there were 7.6 million unfilled jobs in the USA at the end of the first month of 2019. This is causing a severe challenge for companies since only 6.5 million people are looking for work in America, said the U.S. Department of Labor. For the 11th straight month, …

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Immigrants Living in the USA Fuel Farmers Market Resurgence

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. …

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One Out of Six Healthcare Workers in America Are Immigrants

An Indian immigrant, Archana Chatterjee, ventured to the U.S., leaving her home country thirty years ago to pursue her medical training. She missed her own mother’s funeral to care for communities far away from her own. Chatterjee, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in South Dakota, is one of three in the state. The other two …

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