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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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