118. Migrant Midwest

Demographic winter is coming – and it might not be the worst thing. That’s one of many fresh takes on the persistent dilemma facing the American Midwest – declining populations, decimated municipal budgets, and unfilled jobs, set against a background of a national housing crisis, hostility to immigration, and potential appeal as a climate refuge. These are neither parallel nor reliably predictable timelines, but all converge today. What’s a nice Midwestern town to do? Unfrozen interviews Jonathan Burkham, Associate Professor of Human Geography at University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, author of the recent book “Migrant Midwest: The Case for Immigration and Economic Growth in the American Heartland.”