Next New England

Perhaps nowhere else in the country is the impact of recent immigration trends so pronounced as in New England, where the predominantly white population is quickly aging, and where the influx of young immigrants is changing the identity of the region. This week, we hear from employers who bank on immigrant labor, community members getting ready for an influx of Syrian refugees, and foreign-born workers training to care for the elderly. Members of the Rutland community work with a Castleton University student from Saudi Arabia (right) during an Arabic class in Rutland’s Unitarian Universalist church. Photo by Ryan Caron King / NENC Also, the Connecticut origin story of the Gun that Won the West, and a how the murder of a priest taught us all a lesson about protecting the innocent. This is the Church, This is the Steeple, Where are the People? New England is nearing a demographic crisis. That population of our six states is aging fast, and birth rates are the lowest in the nation. States have been trying to ke