Commentary: Immigrants Will Help Rebuild St. Louis
- Suzanne Sierra
- Mar 26, 2014
- 1 min read
St. Louis Public Radio - March 26, 2014
St. Louis has long benefited from immigrants. At the turn of the 20th century, St. Louis had almost 600,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the nation behind New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. And of those people, almost 20 percent were foreign-born and more than 40 percent had foreign-born parents.
