Immigrants become key to state growth and prosperity

Many northern states are relying on immigrants to keep their states prospering, especially since many of their own citizens are leaving.    - - Donna Poisl

Article by: DAVID PETERSON, Star Tribune

Each morning at sunrise, Edinah passes through Edina on her way to work.

The Burnsville resident couldn't have imagined back in Kenya that a town that almost shares her name would become a daily sight -- or that her buddy Doris, whom she knew back in Africa, would be working next door. But it's an apt illustration of a state undergoing a subtle but profound shift in its relationship with its growing immigrant population.

With more native-born residents leaving the state, Minnesota's growth and prosperity depend increasingly upon its unusually strong flow of foreigners, according to a series of new analyses and data, the most recent of which arrived on Thursday.
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