Immigrant entrepreneurs wanted: Rust belt cities need you

In 2011, immigrants started 28 percent of all new business, while only accounting for 13 percent of the U.S. population

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Arnoldo Muller-Molina, a Costa Rican native with a PhD in artificial intelligence, could have moved his fledgling tech startup to Silicon Valley or New York City. Instead, he chose St. Louis, Missouri, a city more renowned for its sports teams than a flourishing immigrant population.

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