Are you an immigrant or do you have immigrants in your household? Marketplace wants to learn how the tough economy is affecting your family dynamics.
The LA Times recently reported on the challenges families with older immigrant family members are facing. What about you — is your family facing challenges? Are you supporting a member of your extended family who is an immigrant? How, if at all, have tough economic times affected your family dynamic?
An immigrant to the U.S. from Guatemala, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is Director of the Rural Enterprise Center of Northfield, MN. He says that in rural Minnesota he’s seeing the Latino unemployment rate grow quickly and “many families under incredible hardships. We have families who have confessed to be living up to three in a single trailer to save money and get by.”
Do you have a story to tell about weathering the recession as an immigrant, or as you provide for immigrants in your family? Click here to share your insight directly with the newsroom… or leave a comment below.
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