When skilled professionals arrive in the U.S. as immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers, many of them face barriers to re-entering their field of expertise.
It’s a story of countless personal challenges, but it also has consequences for entire state economies.
A new law in Maine aims to close that gap. Maine Public Radio’s Ari Snider reports.
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