Retiring Guy's Digest: GET ME REWRITE: 24 years later, Utica New York still loves refugees

After bottoming out in 2000, Utica's population has increased 8%.

Source: Wikipedia

That was then: April 30, 1999

New York Times (from Retiring Guy's clippings file)

Democrat and Chronicle, 1/10/2022

Utica has been called "the town that loves refugees” in national news and has resettled close to 17,000 people from more than 40 countries. The upstate New York snowbelt city opened its doors to Amerasian people from Vietnam in the late 1970s; since then, the largest groups have come from the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia and Southeast Asia.
Utica’s refugee program has done more than reclaim part of the population lost when manufacturing left the area in the 1980s. Its diverse population has brought transformation to the small upstate city, while also transforming the newcomers who call it home.

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