NewsFlash: Mexico feels sting of US housing crisis
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NewsFlash: July 9, 2008
Mexico feels sting of US housing
crisis
Mexico is feeling the sting of the shrinking construction
industry, which hires many Mexican immigrants. In today’s
Snapshot,
research assistant Emily Garr illustrates that as construction jobs
dry up, so do the remittances many immigrant workers send back
home.
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