Migrating Money and People

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For some poor nations, money sent back home from family members working in Western Europe and the U.S. is a lifeline. How has the financial crisis impacted this flow of money? Millions of migrant workers have lost their jobs or seen their incomes cut. The value of remittances is expected to fall for the first time since records have been kept. Download MP3

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Entire program – August 20, 2009

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Today on The World: The votes are being counted in Afghanistan’s presidential election; The only person convicted in the Lockerbie bombing flies home to Libya… after a Scottish court frees him on compassionate grounds; and why waves of new immigrants are flocking to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The Ellis Island of the Great Plains

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota has been dubbed the Ellis Island of the Great Plains. The World’s Jason Margolis reports on how the North and South Dakota have become a center for refugee resettlement.

For Iraqi Kurd, South Dakota is home

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Qadir Aware, an Iraqi Kurd who went to South Dakota as a refugee in the 1970s. He now runs a multi-cultural center in Sioux Falls.