Immigrants Coming to Wisconsin to Build New Lives Aren't Taking Just the Jobs No One Else Wants They're Playing Vital Roles in the State's Economy; Chasing Dreams, Building America
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › July 16, 2006
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Park Falls Heide Clapero made a $7,000 bet on an American dream.
Ten years ago, she paid a nursing recruiter, bought a one-way plane ticket from Manila to Houston, shared a garden apartment with nine other young Filipino women, crammed for certification exams and waited for that fateful day when she heard a woman announce: "We need nurses in Wisconsin."See the full content of this document
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Immigrants Coming to Wisconsin to Build New Lives Aren't Taking Just the Jobs No One Else Wants They're Playing Vital Roles in the State's Economy; Chasing Dreams, Building America
Clapero and three others took a chance, packed their bags and headed north, past Milwaukee, past Wausau, past a rolling landscape of lakes and trees, until they finally arrived at Park Manor, a long- term care facility in the Ruffed Grouse Capital of the World.
The three other nurses have long since left for other jobs, other homes, but not Clapero, who stayed, an immigrant who fulfilled not just a dream, but who filled a vital need for a small, rural community in desperate need of one more nurse to care for the ill and the aged."Personally, I am a good worker," says Clapero, 37, married to a local law enforcement officer and now on the cusp of achieving full citizenship. "I can give the same dedication to wh...See the full content of this document
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