Immigrant dairy workers are economic spark in rural Kansas

When Kansas dairy farmers expanded their herds and couldn’t recruit enough local labor, they began recruiting immigrants from Central America as long-term employees with effects that are altering rural society and economics, according to Kansas State University researchers. Associate sociology professor Alisa Garni says immigrant labor and economic development have gone hand in hand. “Immigrant labor… » Read More

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