Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton College, hopes to fight population drain in Iowa by luring immigrants to the state. Vilsack's plan is profiled in TIME Magazine (March 19, 2001).
The TIME article notes that ,"Young people have been fleeing since the farm crisis of the mid-'80s, and there aren't enough bodies in the pipeline to replace the 368,000 soon-to-retire baby boomers. 'If we want to save the family farm,' says Vilsack, 'we have to have people to farm the land.'"
