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Immigrant Workers Send Billions Home

by Scott Horsley, NPR
October 18, 2007

The large migration of workers from poor countries to rich, industrialized nations has produced an equally large flow of money in the opposite direction. A United Nations agency says immigrant workers sent home more than $300 billion last year, a number that far outpaces official government aid.

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  • Morning Edition, October 18, 2007
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