3 Cities Where Immigrants Helped Save Main Street
3 Cities Where Immigrants Helped Save Main Street
Immigrants represent an outsize 28 percent of Main Street business owners nationally becoming a lifeline for dying neighborhoods, finds a new report by AS/COA and the Fiscal Policy Institute.
South Philadelphia’s Italian Market has long been the go-to spot for pasta and cannoli. But in the past two decades, a new set of business owners have moved into the neighborhood, bringing Mexican, Vietnamese and Korean food with them.
The transformation follows a national trend: new immigrants are increasingly becoming the face of community businesses across the country and, in some cases, a lifeline for dying neighborhoods.
Nationally, immigrants make up 13 percent of the population, but represent an outsized 28 percent of Main Street business owners, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and the Fiscal Policy Institute....
