Garden City featured in NPR story on community vitality and immigration

By • Feb 18, 2017

Garden City, KS Main Street looking south
Credit City of Garden City, KS

In Kansas, some rural towns are booming while others are dwindling. Garden City, Kan., for instance, attracts people from across the globe. The population is young, growing, and extremely diverse.  And the large immigrant community provides the workforce that fuels the local economy.  None of this happened by accident, as the story notes.  Frank Morris reports.

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