How a Red State City Fell in Love With Muslim Immigrants (Rebroadcast)

Stephanomics

• Episode: How a Red State City Fell in Love With Muslim Immigrants (Rebroadcast)
• Website: Stephanomics
• Feed URL: http://feeds.bloomberg.fm/BLM8939407484
• Duration: 00:27:22
• Published: 2017-11-23 12:00

Benchmark takes the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday and re-runs an episode from March. Post-industrial Midwestern America helped propel Donald Trump to the nation's top job. You've heard that a hundred times. But did you hear about St Louis? A wave of Bosnian refugees, many of them Muslim, arrive in the city, starting in the mid-1990s. The result: a surge in business and job creation, revitalization of the community and help in the transition from a manufacturing to a service economy. Sadik Kukic tells Dan and Michelle about his journey from Balkan concentration camps to a pillar of the local community: He's now president of the Bosnian Chamber of Commerce. What could be more American? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com