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Multilingual liaisons work as "cultural brokers" to support students who are refugees in Vermont.

Multilingual liaisons are ‘cultural brokers’ for refugee students in this Vermont school district 

On Course

English language learning programs in US schools have seen tidal changes in recent years, but perhaps nowhere as much as Burlington, Vermont.

Burlington, Vermont based African group A2VT

This Afropop band’s founders are both refugees from Africa, but they met on a Vermont soccer field

Global Hit
Anwar Diab Agha (left) and Ashraf Alamatouri are two of Vermont’s newest Syrian transplants.

The Syrian diaspora now counts three families in Vermont

Conflict
Refugee workers at the Koffee Kup Bakery in Burlington, Vermont package up doughnuts. The human resources manager there says refugees have been instrumental to the company's growth.

More US-bound refugees? Labor-starved Vermont businesses welcome Obama’s call.

Economics
A Bhutanese woman harvesting rice by hand in a Vermont paddy.

Bhutanese refugees prove you can farm rice, in Vermont

Conflict & Justice

Living on Earth’s Fifth Annual Winter Solstice Seasonal Storytelling Special

With the winter solstice upon us, and the daylight hours at their shortest, we here at Living on Earth are taking a break from the news to tell stories of a different sort: the kind often told around a warm fire on a snowy night. In years past we’ve featured winter tales from around the […]

The World

Nostalgia for Depression Era Conservation

The modern environmental movement is only about 30 years old, but conservation has been around as a way of life for a long time. That reminder comes from our elder commentator Ruth Page who began conserving early in this century. Commentator Ruth Page live in Burlington, Vermont, and comes to us from Vermont Public Radio.

The World

Worms Commentary

Worms are of more than passing interest to Commentator Ruth Page, who thinks about such things at her home in Burlington, Vermont.

The World

Many generations, one roof

Lifestyle & Belief

President Obama does it, and according to a study by the AARP, so do 33 percent of all 18 to 49 year olds. Living with your parents or in-laws is sometimes done out of necessity, other times voluntarily, and in many other cultures, much more frequently.