November 30, 2010
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Thirty years after the first wave of Hmong refugees arrived in Minnesota, experts say their economic status has steadily risen. Nou Yang, director of a youth leadership program at the Wilder Center in St. Paul, says Hmong income and educational attainment rates are rising. She says the Hmong young people born here who are most successful appear to be those who make an effort to both live in their traditional culture and also adopt the American culture.
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